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"The cake is a lie" in your language by Aeryn on 01-16-2008 at 09:35 PM

I want to know the sentence "the cake is a lie" (you know, from Portal) in as many languages as possible - I'm gonna make a list of the translations. If you're wondering, here's the IRC conversation that led to this:

[16.01.08][21:20:04] <bto> haz's cake is a lie ;o
[16.01.08][21:20:15] <Haz>
[16.01.08][21:20:16] <Haz> yes.
[16.01.08][21:20:30] <Haz> la tarta es una mentira!
[16.01.08][21:20:50] <Haz> (Peri said that once actually )
[16.01.08][21:21:29] <bto>
[16.01.08][21:21:41] <bto> in mexico, we would say
[16.01.08][21:21:54] <bto> "el pastel es una mentira"
[16.01.08][21:22:01] <Haz> aha
[16.01.08][21:23:18] <bto>
[16.01.08][21:23:43] <Haz> i think i might start a collection of that sentence in different languages, like svip did with his babies sentence
[16.01.08][21:23:48] <Haz> it would be interesting

Also, if you say things differently in different countries/areas even though the language is the same (like with Spanish), I'd be more than happy to know how it's said specifically in your country.

Edit: and please also say what language you translated it to, and country, if it's relevant.

Thanks all. <3

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by prashker on 01-16-2008 at 09:37 PM

LOLCat: TEH CAEK IZ LIE
rot13: gur pnxr vf n yvr

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by mezzanine on 01-16-2008 at 09:39 PM

Romanian: [Image: romaniankh2.png]

Standard Arabic: [Image: arabicha1.png]

Unicode characters don't work in postbits, so I had to print them on images.

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by *Saint* on 01-16-2008 at 09:47 PM

"The cake is a lie." English

« Le gâteau est un mensonge. » French

„ Die Torte ist eine Lüge.“ *German

*I think that's what it would be I don't know very much German but I will be having German class sometime soon but until then I only think thats correct.

I don't understand "The cake is a lie" though is that supposed to mean something or is it just nothing.

RE: RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Aeryn on 01-16-2008 at 09:51 PM

quote:
Originally posted by *Saint*
Le gâteau est un mensonge.

I don't understand "The cake is a lie" though is that supposed to mean something or is it just nothing.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=th...ake%20is%20a%20lie

quote:
Originally posted by Voldemort
also, i think writing the language its being translated to in the same post would be nice

rofl, just what I was thinking.

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Voldemort on 01-16-2008 at 09:51 PM

also, i think writing the language its being translated to in the same post would be nice

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Chrono on 01-16-2008 at 10:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Haz
[16.01.08][21:21:54] <bto> "el pastel es una mentira"

That one's better than peri's.

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Chancer on 01-16-2008 at 10:48 PM

Portuguese: O bolo é uma mentira

BTW, it's not a lie. I finished the game and I can tell it's not a lie. Moreover, it's delicious. Chocolate.

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by aNILEator on 01-16-2008 at 11:18 PM

THE CAKE IS A LIE AND JOO KNOES IT!

T&T this thread not GCC

and you actually can't taste the cake, that's just the monitor your licking may I suggest you clean it now, I'm sure the dusty taste told you that you should more often

RE: RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Aeryn on 01-16-2008 at 11:46 PM

quote:
Originally posted by aNILEator

T&T this thread not GCC

Sorry? Firstly, I want to keep this thread since it contains valuable material, and secondly, if you really have a problem with a particular thread, just report it and let the mods decide. Thank you.

Thanks to everyone who have been contributing, keep them coming.

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Supersonicdarky on 01-17-2008 at 12:33 AM

I DEMAND UNICODE SUPPORT

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RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Jesus on 01-17-2008 at 01:19 AM

literally translated to Dutch it would be

"De cake is een leugen."
though I wouldn't use that sentence myself but that's just because it makes no sense

And yes, we use the same word for cake

RE: RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Cartox on 01-17-2008 at 06:01 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Jesus
literally translated to Dutch it would be

"De cake is een leugen."
though I wouldn't use that sentence myself but that's just because it makes no sense

And yes, we use the same word for cake

actually, it 's "De taart is een leugen"

We use the word cake for an other pastry

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by John Anderton on 01-17-2008 at 06:46 AM

If you tell me how to do the devanagiri type script and I'll give you a Hindi and Marathi translation

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by TheBlasphemer on 01-17-2008 at 07:55 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Jesus
literally translated to Dutch it would be

"De cake is een leugen."
though I wouldn't use that sentence myself but that's just because it makes no sense

And yes, we use the same word for cake

Hmmm, I personally would translate it as "De taart is een leugen." (or possible "Het gebak is een leugen").
In my opinion "Cake" is more appropriate for those long things you take slices of, while "Taart" of "Gebak" refers more to the actual cake (as in a piece of pie) that Portal is refering to.

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by x2zen on 01-17-2008 at 08:14 PM

Danish: Kagen er en løgn

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by vikke on 01-17-2008 at 08:22 PM

Swedish, very similar to Danish: Kakan är en lögn.

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by andrey on 01-17-2008 at 08:32 PM

quote:
Originally posted by *Saint*
" Die Torte ist eine Lüge." *German

*I think that's what it would be I don't know very much German but I will be having German class sometime soon but until then I only think thats correct.

You're almost right, but "Der Kuchen ist eine Lüge" would be a more accurate translation because "Torte" translates to "pie", while cake is "Kuchen" in German.

RE: RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Jesus on 01-18-2008 at 01:08 AM

quote:
Originally posted by TheBlasphemer
"De taart is een leugen." (or possible "Het gebak is een leugen")

taart = pie
that's why I chose to use "cake"
but "gebak" may be better indeed

(although I'd translate "gebak" to "pastry")

edit: just checked, babelfish says cake = cake

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by prashker on 01-18-2008 at 03:13 AM

Binary: 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100101

Hex: 54 68 65 20 43 61 6b 65 20 69 73 20 61 20 4c 69 65

Base64: VGhlIENha2UgaXMgYSBMaWU=

MD2: 53dd007601fe1d9ce584179b1dbec50b

MD4: d6f67899f618f6c97bfb92446a4cd7f3

MD5: 4b4a51b8902a1618caded837ef166428

CRC 8, ccitt, 16, 32 : eb, c500, be18, 928a8e24

CRYPT (form: $ MD5? $ SALT $ CRYPT):
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(form: SALT[2] CRYPT[11]):
psNYB3AoGpciU

SHA1: 770dc45253e7838b46e68f63ca78baa01065964a

RIPEMD-160:
f51b44d2 ac23e41d d9721c1a 0cdd03b1 34327d00

SHA2-256:
014f6918beb37ba2184b3ff41f34153f
a0bf1b5aebcc89c0d1974629ac2266fa

SHA2-384:
d4f0f143a492f5b04e49067e933a2745
0d67014e67a16250b27e8af6d2621dc8
db325370addde8337c2e3055a92cf42c

SHA2-512:
d5048093b3c351732b963ca9c53cee98
4ab2baa9147637e4aff2f66520b9dacb
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RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Jesus on 01-18-2008 at 03:33 AM

Morse:
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RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by tony on 01-18-2008 at 04:29 AM

backwards:
eil a si ekac eht

RE: RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by rix on 01-18-2008 at 07:14 AM

"See kook on vale"?

"Ära hõiska enne õhtut" would be quite appropriate actually. Just to mention, this is an Estonian version.

quote:
Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
I DEMAND UNICODE SUPPORT

Word!

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Felu on 01-18-2008 at 12:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by John Anderton
If you tell me how to do the devanagiri type script and I'll give you a Hindi and Marathi translation

http://hindikeyboard.indiapress.org/ Increase the font size on the page to make it clearer.

Although, the forum won't support unicode. You'll probably need to capture an image or something.

Btw, i'm interested to know what do we call cake in hindi, http://www.shabdkosh.com/en2hi/cake doesn't give me any good results.

RE: RE: RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Aeryn on 01-18-2008 at 02:18 PM

rofl at SonicSam's and Jesus' replies.

quote:
Originally posted by rix
"See kook on vale"?

Yeh, I was also thinking of "kook on vale". It sounds kinda strange though, I dunno.

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by mezzanine on 01-18-2008 at 03:12 PM

Since this forum doesn't support Unicode characters in postbits, and many languages require this, I have added all translations so far on this page. Feel free to contribute.

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Justin on 01-18-2008 at 11:54 PM

The cake is a lie

Welsh translation: 'r cacen ydy anwiredd

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by aNILEator on 01-19-2008 at 12:48 AM

lol welsh

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Justin on 01-19-2008 at 01:19 AM

And whats wrong with Welsh? lol

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Thor on 01-19-2008 at 01:24 AM

Norwegian: Kaken er en løgn!

:'(

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by duck! on 01-19-2008 at 01:41 AM

haxor - 7h3 c@k3 Iz @ Li3
:tongue:

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by TheSteve on 01-19-2008 at 01:52 AM

Japanese: keki wa uso desu
[Image: cakeisalietb5.png]

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Svip on 01-19-2008 at 11:37 PM

Standard/iokfayollenuk: milkon ylmo

Inja: é'omda itul a'limká

[Image: 1200785840.png]

What? Conlangs are not allowed?

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Adeptus on 01-20-2008 at 07:03 AM

Latvian: "kūka ir meli"

Grammatical footnote -- strictly speaking, that means "cake is lies". The word for a lie is one of the oddball words in Latvian that is always used in plural. We know what the singular form would be, but we don't use it.

Edit: ū is a u + macron.

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Panos on 01-23-2008 at 07:53 PM

Greek: To keik einai ena psema.

In greek characters the phrase would look quite different, but they don't
appear, so that's all I got.

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by mezzanine on 01-23-2008 at 09:14 PM

If your language uses special characters this forum doesn't support, please add them here!

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Chancer on 01-23-2008 at 10:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mezzanine
If your language uses special characters this forum doesn't support, please add them here!

If it's about the cake, why the logo is an egg?!?

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by SikStyles on 01-23-2008 at 10:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Chancer

quote:
Originally posted by mezzanine
If your language uses special characters this forum doesn't support, please add them here!
If it's about the cake, why the logo is an egg?!?

Because that website wasn't made for only this..?

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Chancer on 01-23-2008 at 10:52 PM

quote:
Originally posted by SikStyles
Because that website wasn't made for only this..?

That's it. I didn't notice before.

RE: "The cake is a lie" in your language by Th3rmal on 01-24-2008 at 10:43 AM

The second definition of the cake is a lie in urban dictionary, i think its funny...

quote:
Originally posted by
the cake is a lie

expression used when something great has been promised from a third party but it ultimately is not so.

(six months prior to Vista release) "Vista will be the greatest operating system ever!"

(three months after Vista release) "The cake is a lie."