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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:47 AM
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Sci-Fi Movie Challenge: Latin mistranslated into English
Latin scholars? SALVE, dudes!

These are all bad literal translations of the titles of popular science fiction movies. Almost all of them are from Latin; one is from Greek, and one is even from Polish! (And that’s a HUGE clue in itself.)

Some of them may be increasingly proliciously intelligible if you intercalate a sufficient copium of hyphens, or upon invagination of the peculiar pseudo-constructions of the English genitive voice. (Gobbledygook? That’s part of the challenge!)

I’ll give all of yous half an hour before I come back and check up on yous.

1: The Beyond-Earthish
2: Craftily Made Reading Between-ness
3: Dream Ripping Go-Thing
4: Smaller Bring-Back
5: Maker of the Hunt
6: Someone Else's Birthingness
7: Someone Else's Straightening On Again
8: Steersman-Like Gutness Idea
9: The Day of Not Hanging Off Of
10: Maker of the Little End
11: The Womb (could also be The Mother Thing)
12: The Wanderer of the Imitating Monkeys
13: With a Touch
14: Worker Grab

Bonus:
15: Known Thing Made-Up-ness

Do you have any corrections to the list? Or my sig quip below? By all means, feel free to decorticate me in public! :-)

--bkl
Ex Reticulum Computora Populusque Americanorum
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:53 AM
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1. No idea. But I'm going off to Hong Kong immediately...
to make The Wanderer of the Imitating Monkeys. :)
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dreissig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 02:08 AM
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2. Arma Virumque Cano
I didn't get very many because I don't know the names of sci-fi movies. Here's a start for somebody who does:

1: The Beyond-Earthish - extraterrestrial
2: Craftily Made Reading Between-ness
3: Dream Ripping Go-Thing
4: Smaller Bring-Back - minor
5: Maker of the Hunt - factor
6: Someone Else's Birthingness - Alien
7: Someone Else's Straightening On Again
8: Steersman-Like Gutness Idea
9: The Day of Not Hanging Off Of
10: Maker of the Little End
11: The Womb (could also be The Mother Thing) - Matrix
12: The Wanderer of the Imitating Monkeys
13: With a Touch - contact
14: Worker Grab

Bonus:
15: Known Thing Made-Up-ness
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 03:52 PM
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3. a few more attempts, if you're still there
1: The Beyond-Earthish - extraterrestrial
2: Craftily Made Reading Between-ness - Artificial Intelligence
3: Dream Ripping Go-Thing
4: Smaller Bring-Back - Minority Report
5: Maker of the Hunt - factor (or Predator?)
6: Someone Else's Birthingness - Alien Nation
7: Someone Else's Straightening On Again - Alien Resurrection
8: Steersman-Like Gutness Idea - governing?
9: The Day of Not Hanging Off Of - Independence Day
10: Maker of the Little End - Terminator
11: The Womb (could also be The Mother Thing) - Matrix
12: The Wanderer of the Imitating Monkeys
13: With a Touch - contact
14: Worker Grab

Bonus:
15: Known Thing Made-Up-ness

please correct anything going down the wrong track. And tell me which is Polish, so I don't waste time on it (can't think of any Polish titles at all).
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