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by kps 7y ago
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CITYSPEAK (from Bladerunner)
Sushi Master: Nani ni shimasho ka. [Japanese: "What would you like to have?"]
Deckard: {Points} Give me four.
Sushi Master: Futatsu de jubun desu yo. [Japanese: "Two is enough!"]
Deckard: No. Four. Two, two, four.
Sushi Master: Futatsu de jubun desu yo. [Japanese: "Two is enough!"]
Deckard: {Resignedly} And noodles.
Sushi Master: Wakatte kudasai yo. [Japanese: "Please understand!" (Actually implying sarcastically, "Can't you understand?")
Policeman: Hey, idi-wa. [Korean: "Hey, come here."]
Gaff: Monsieur, azonnal kövessen engem bitte. [French-Hungarian-German: "Sir, follow me immediately please!" "azonnal" - means immediately; "kövessen" means follow imperative; "engem" - means me. And of course "Monsieur" is French for Sir and "bitte" is German for please.)]
Sushi Master: He say you under arrest, Mr. Deckard.
Deckard: You got the wrong guy, pal.
Gaff: Lófaszt, nehogy már. Te vagy a Blade ... Blade Runner. [Hungarian: "Horsedick, no way! You are the Blade ... Blade Runner."
Sushi Master: He say you 'Brade Runner'.
Deckard: Tell him I'm eating.
Gaff: Captain Bryant toka. Me ni omae yo. [Japanese: "Captain Bryant wants to see your mug in front of his immediately!" (This is a loose translation. "Me ni omae yo" is a sort of pun. "Me ni mae" means to meet someone. "omae" is
the very informal use of "you" - in Japanese, this is significant. "yo")
Deckard (V/O): The charmer's name was Gaff, I'd seen him around. Bryant must have upped him to the Blade Runner unit. That gibberish he talked was city speak, gutter talk. A mishmash of Japanese, Spanish, German, what have you. I didn't really need a translator, I knew the lingo, every good cop did. But I wasn't going to make it easier for him.
- dang 7y agoThe submitted pdf was http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/temp/cityspeak.pdf http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/temp/cityspeak.pdf. We switched to the link wool_gather mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21536491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21536491.
- ahoka 7y agoThe accusative of horsedick, to be precise.
- kjs3 7y agoNow it makes sense! Thanks for the clarification. :-)
- JohnJamesRambo 7y agoI’ve always wondered why the food vendor wanted to sell him less food and make less money.
- Iv 7y agoQuotas and incentives. There may be incentives to serve many meals instead of serving a lot of food.
- JohnJamesRambo 7y agoIs the Bladerunner universe not capitalist?
- lgeorget 7y agoI've always supposed he had some affective care for Deckard and didn't want him to eat too much junk food.
- bradknowles 7y agoI just re-watched this section with closed captions turned on. The cityspeak is just identified as “FOREIGN LANGUAGE”, but isn’t actually translated. Ironically enough, the same is true for “Maclunkey” in the scene where Han shoots Greedo. All the other things Greedo says are translated, but not that one. Darn.