Randomly Reading<\/a>, and I learned that she was a German literature major and reads Sonderling Sunday! I didn’t know anyone did besides James Kennedy and me! \ud83d\ude42 Glad to meet you this weekend, Alex!]<\/p>\nWe were right in the middle of a dramatic (imaginary) ocean voyage:
\nMeter f\u00fcr Meter k\u00e4mpfte sich die >Argo< , alle Maschinen auf Volldampf, gegen die Urgewalt dieses Taifuns vorw\u00e4rts.<\/em>
\n= “With all engines running full ahead, the <\/em>Argo<\/em> inched her way forward against the elemental might of the storm.”
\n(“Meter by meter battled itself the Argo<\/em>, all engines on full steam, against the elemental power of the typhoon forward.”)<\/p>\nMachinisten und Heizer<\/em> = “engineers and stokers”<\/p>\nKesselr\u00e4ume<\/em> = “boiler rooms”<\/p>\n\u00dcbermenschliches<\/em> = “superhuman efforts”<\/p>\ndicken Tauen<\/em> = “stout ropes”<\/p>\ngrausamen Schlingern und Stampfen des Schiffes<\/em>
\n= “the ship’s violent pitching and tossing”<\/p>\ninnerste Kern des Wirbelsturms<\/em> = “innermost eye of the storm”
\n“innermost core of the cyclone [whirl-storm]”<\/p>\nAuf der Meeresoberfl\u00e4che, die hier spiegelglatt war, weil alle Wellen einfach von der Gewalt des Sturmes flachgefegt wurden, tanzte ein riesenhaftes Wesen.<\/em>
\n= “Gyrating on the surface of the sea, which had been ironed flat as a pancake by the sheer force of the sorm, was a huge figure.”
\n(“On the seas-over-surface, that here mirror-smooth was, because all waves simply from the violence of the storm flat-swept were, danced a gigantic being.”)<\/p>\nein Brummkreisel von der Gr\u00f6\u00dfe eines Berges<\/em>
\n= “a mountainous humming top”
\n(“a humming top of the size of a mountain”)<\/p>\nThis is better in German:
\nEin Schum-Schum gummilastikum!<\/em>
\n= “A Teetotum elasticum!”<\/p>\nallersten Zeiten der Erdentwicklung<\/em>
\n= “the earliest phase of life on earth”<\/p>\nEs ist ein Jammer!<\/em>
\n= “What a shame”<\/p>\nDas einzige Exemplar<\/em> = “The sole surviving specimen”<\/p>\nKontrafiktions-Kanone<\/em> = “antifriction gun”
\n(Google: “Contraindications-Fiction Cannon” Is this a case where the translator changed the meaning to a similar-sounding word? It is, after all, an imaginary creature, so an Anti-Fiction Gun might work.)<\/p>\nRiesenkreisel<\/em> = “giant spinning top”<\/p>\nStichflamme<\/em> = “tongue of flame”<\/p>\nZwillingsrohr<\/em> = “twin barrels”<\/p>\nleuchtende Gescho\u00df<\/em> = “flaming missiles”<\/p>\nEs ist zwecklos!<\/em> = “It’s no use.” (“It is purposeless.”)<\/p>\nErste Steuermann<\/em> = “first mate”<\/p>\nWandernden Taifun<\/em> = “Traveling Tornado”<\/p>\n\u00dcberlieferungen<\/em> = “traditions”<\/p>\nwahrer Kern<\/em> = “grain of truth”<\/p>\nbestimmte Tonschwingungen<\/em> = “certain sonic vibrations”<\/p>\nNice big words in this section! Appropriate since a child is pretending to be an important scientist.
\nLebensbedingungen<\/em> = “mode of existence”<\/p>\nh\u00f6chst eigent\u00fcmlichen Gesang<\/em> = “most peculiar song”<\/p>\nDonnernd schlossen sich die Wassermassen \u00fcber ihm.<\/em>
\n= “With a thunderous roar, the sea closed over it.”<\/p>\npatschna\u00df<\/em> = “soaked” (“smack-wet”)<\/p>\nI’ll finish with the last sentence of chapter 3:
\nSo wie bei Momo konnte man sonst nirgends spielen.<\/em>
\n= “The games they played with Momo were more fun than any others.”
\n(“So as with Momo could one otherwise nowhere play.”)<\/p>\nThat’s it for tonight! It’s good to be back! May you avoid any Whirl-storms before we come back to Momo!<\/p>\n
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