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Dear MPD, maybe "Get down" can be translated to «لذّت ببر»

Dear MPD, you may be able to use «لذّت ببر»

for "get down".  If you go to following link;

//www.thefreedictionary.com/get+down

for informal definition of "get down", it says:

Dear MPD

Re the words you asked about, I think:

نویسنده لعنت اطمینان حاصل کنید که Pilate

and

اُه آره، بیا رو کار

are quite sufficient! To be sure, even if they don't convey the meaning according to your perfectionist standards, their entertainment value has been priceless!

I'm still laughing!

MPD

My interpretation of the lyrcics is similar to yours :)

You know, when you mentioned "God" and "Good" I realized I didn't know the origin of either word!? I just went and checked and it seems from what most sources are saying the word "God" goes all the way back to proto-Indo-European roots and has similar forms in Sanskrit, Persian and Hindu! 

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Hi MPD,

      Thank you for your creative etymology of the word "God":

As a matter of fact I think “God” used to be “Good”, but somewhere along the way one of the O’s dropped off and “GOOD” became “GOD”. 

It is very clever! I am interested in origin of words. I have a word origin dictionary.....but, I have to say that my Englsih is still very bad...I am struggling in every aspect! 

thanks for the interesting insight!

thanks,

Hey, not bad!

It's definitely not easy to translate song lyrics -- it's even weirder than poetry. This is pretty good. Interesting.

The google translation is hilarious.

Nature of the game

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“Devil” is mentioned in the title of the poem, however in the body of the poem “Lucifer” is mentioned when he says “Just call me Lucifer”, so I think “Devil” and “Lucifer” is being use interchangeably here.  My own interpretation of “Devil” and/or “Lucifer” in this poem is that it refers “figuratively to human sin and temptation and to any human system in opposition to God.”  And by God, my own interpretation is anything that is Good.  As a matter of fact I think “God” used to be “Good”, but somewhere along the way one of the O’s dropped off and “GOOD” became “GOD”.  Also, I translated “wealth” to “governance” rather than “richness, treasure, having money, etc.”, because “governance” more closely resembles “human system”.

Bad deeds reside within man himself, so to speak.  The poem goes over a list of things that man has done throughout history.  It talks about Kennedys’ assassinations being done by “you and me.”  It says “as heads is tails, just call me Lucifer”, so man and devil are two sides of the same coin.  When it says “because I’m in need of some restraint”, I think it is saying man and the bad deeds that reside within him are in need of some restraint.  “I’ll tell you one more time you’re to blame.”, meaning man is to be blamed for his own bad deeds.

So anyway, ambiguity, imagination, and comparativeness, are all present in this poem.  I tried to keep it that way in the translation.

Thank you for your comment.

MPD

I just meant the obvious answer - the literal devil/lucifer - is not the right one! The song itself is intended to be a bit of a riddle so I'm sure different people come to a different conclusion about what the author meant. As long as the nature of the riddle comes through in the translation, I'd say it's a job well done :)

Thank you all for reading

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Nazy, I'm still at lost about some Farsi words for "damn" and "get down".  Any input would be appreciated.

Azarin, as bad as Google Translation was I still learned some things from it.

Craig, please see my other comment.

Louie Louie, funny video clip.

Anahid, after reading your Bob Dylan's song translation I figured translating lyrics would be fun, and it's been so far.

bejenaghe, I have not read your new blog yet.  I'm sure it's great as usual.

Yolanda, you're too kind to me, as usual.

Craig, I'm going to make minor modifications to the translation

So, if you'd like and have time, if you give me your input on what you mean by obvious answer isn't the right one, it might help me with the minor changes I'm going to make.  Thanks.

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Hi! MPD,

     You are 3M's now, Multiple personality, Multi-lingual, and Multi-talented! Wow! You are in the translation business now.....Mick has metamorphosed a lot. The guy in the music video and the guy in the accompanying photo look like 2 different people to me.

Thanks,

best wishes always! 

multiple personality disorder jan

great song. Happy halloween to you too. BOOOOOOOOO :-)

very nice translation MPD

Dear MPD, Great job with the selection of the song which is poignant and then you did a great translation.

I'm a sweet transvestite from Transylvania

Happy Halloween everyone!

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enr4W6FsSpk&feature=related

Great song

And very topical! This song is especially interesting because if you read the lyrics you realize the obvious answer isn't the right one!

Excellent translation...compare it with Google's!!

Dear MPD,

I find that Google's translation really does suck! Or at least it's good for a laugh!

Enjoy!

لطفا به من معرفی به خودم اجازه می دهد
من یک انسان از ثروت و طعم
من در اطراف برای طولانی ، سال های طولانی شده است
دزدید بسیاری از روح انسان و ایمان
و من دور شد 'وقتی که عیسی مسیح
به حال لحظه ای خود را از شک و درد
نویسنده لعنت اطمینان حاصل کنید که Pilate
دستان خود را شسته و مهر و موم شده سرنوشت او را

خوشحال از ملاقات شما خوشبختم
امیدواریم که شما حدس بزنید اسم من
اما آنچه 'spuzzling شما
آیا طبیعت از بازی من

من در سراسر سنت پترزبورگ گیر
وقتی که من تو را دیدم آن زمان برای تغییر بود
قتل امپراتور روسیه و وزرای خود را
آناستازیا فریاد زد بیهوده

من روود مخزن
برگزار مرتبه و بطور کلی
هنگامی که حمله رعد اسا raged
استخر و بدن

خوشحال از ملاقات شما خوشبختم
امیدواریم که شما حدس بزنید اسم من ، آه yeah
چه 'spuzzling شما
آیا طبیعت از بازی من ، آه yeah

من با خوشحالی به تماشای
در حالی که پادشاهان و ملکه
جنگیدند برای ده دهه
برای خدایان ساخته اند

من فریاد کردن
"چه کسی به قتل کندی؟"
وقتی بعد از همه
این شما و من بود

اجازه بدهید به من لطفا معرفی خودم
من یک انسان از ثروت و طعم
و برای من تله گذاشته troubadours
چه کسی به قتل قبل از دریافت آنها به بمبئی

خوشحال از ملاقات شما خوشبختم
امیدواریم که شما حدس زده اسم من ، آه yeah
اما آنچه 'spuzzling شما
آیا طبیعت از بازی من ، آه بله ، دریافت کردن ، کودک

خوشحال از ملاقات شما خوشبختم
امیدواریم که شما حدس زده اسم من ، آه yeah
اما آنچه را به شما گیج کننده
فقط از بازی من طبیعت

همانطور که هر پلیس جنایی است
و همه sinners پرستاران
به عنوان سر دم است
شیطان فقط به من تماس بگیرید
'علت من در نیاز برخی از محدودیت هستم

بنابراین اگر شما من را ملاقات کنید
آیا برخی از حسن نیت ارائه میدهد
آیا برخی از همدردی ، و برخی از طعم
از همه شما به خوبی آموخته ادب
یا من روح خود را به زباله ، yeah ذخیره کردن دانشگاه مریلند

خوشحال از ملاقات شما خوشبختم
امیدواریم که شما حدس زده اسم من ، yeah مریلند
اما آنچه 'spuzzling شما
آیا طبیعت از بازی من ، کودک مریلند ، دریافت پایین

وو ، که
آه بله ، در پایین کنید
آه yeah
اوه بله!

ارسال به نوزاد به من ، چه نام من
ارسال به عسل من ، کودک من حدس نام
ارسال به نوزاد به من ، چه نام من
من به شما می گویند یک زمان ، you're مقصر

اپنآفیس ، که
اپنآفیس ، که
اپنآفیس ، که
اپنآفیس ، که ، که
اپنآفیس ، که ، که

Happy Halloween!

Excellent translation, MPD. You gave the lyrics a whole new soul! Thank you for the blog and the naughty Persian twist!