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Need help with hard translations...

  • 29-09-2009 10:29PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 470 ✭✭


    Can ye please have a go at translating these to Irish?


    I am at my most free when I sail...

    Still seeking Freedom's story...

    Still seeking Eagle's story...

    I still want to be crew...

    Lol, thanks!


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 487 ✭✭Shifty


    have a look at www.translate.google.com


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭pog it


    Please don't use Google translate. It is deplorable- you will more than likely get duddy translations.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭LimeFruitGum


    Also, flowery phrases such as these don't translate very easily into Irish at all.

    GoogleTrans is just going to give ye a barebones literal translation, potentially losing the sense of the original English.


  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    OP's better off looking for an "old Irish phrases" website rather than trying to translate, just look for a phrase that has a similar meaning


    eg:
    Níl aon tintéan mar do thintéan féin

    There's no place like home.

    As you can see the phrase doesn't translate directly at all.

    A quick google brings up this one (plus hundreds of others)
    http://www.ireland-information.com/irishphrases.htm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 164 ✭✭pops


    I am at my most free when I sail...

    Tá níos mó saoirse agam ag seoltóireacht ná aon uair eile

    Still seeking Freedom's story...

    Fós ag lorg scéal na saoire

    Still seeking Eagle's story...

    Fós ag lorg scéal an Iolra

    I still want to be crew...

    Táim fós ag iarraidh a bheith mar chriú

    HTH


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