Daniel says....
Re: Weird voicemail
by danielbeast on Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:06 pm
Wow, you guys are incredible! This just sounded like gibberish to me!
I've been following along, and I think Lella, QtheC, and Fatal Gear are right... this has to be Dutch, because of Elizabeth's connection to Weyer. Everyone did so much great work trying to figure out how to translate it! So it sounds like it's something about the neighborhood park Friday. Thanks, guys!!!
by danielbeast
on Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:12 pm
annapanna wrote:
Well, even if it is not "typical" Dutch, maybe EA has a little bit of an accent? So, go to the park, Daniel! Good luck!!!
That might be it! Thanks for the info guys!
http://www.lg15.com/lonelygirl15/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=16926&p=570016&hilit=#p570016 
The reversed audio is poorly pronounced Dutch. Roughly translated it says: "Friday, the park where you were, go look there."
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qthec said...
hunnah (and perhaps others on the same thread) deserve credit for pointing out the Elizabeth Avery connection to Weyer...
http://www.lg15.com/lonelygirl15/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=16926&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=165#p569632
hunnah wrote:
Bree explained how at the age of 21, the woman later known as Elizabeth Avery lived and studied in Edinburgh, Scotland. At that time, Bree's mother was working on a dissertation on Johann Weyer, a Dutch physician, occultist, and demonologist."
April 3, 2008 3:17 PM
qthec said...
Working with others on the thread (in particular Lella who suggested "to look" as a translation) and Fatal Gear who was on the Dutch rather than German track, here was my stab at a translation of the Dutch from the reversed audio (still not sure about the last two syllables - they could be totally wrong)...
http://www.lg15.com/lonelygirl15/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=16926&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=165#p569631
Dutch
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vrijdag = friday
nabuurschap = neighborhood
parkeren = park
gaan = go
kijk = to look
dos?
daar = there
ref:
English Dutch dictionary http://dictionaries.travlang.com/EnglishDutch/
English Dutch translation http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
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Wait, who is Weyer again?
ReplyDeletehunnah (and perhaps others on the same thread) deserve credit for pointing out the Elizabeth Avery connection to Weyer...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.lg15.com/lonelygirl15/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=16926&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=165#p569632
hunnah wrote:
Bree explained how at the age of 21, the woman later known as Elizabeth Avery lived and studied in Edinburgh, Scotland. At that time, Bree's mother was working on a dissertation on Johann Weyer, a Dutch physician, occultist, and demonologist."
Working with others on the thread (in particular Lella who suggested "to look" as a translation) and Fatal Gear who was on the Dutch rather than German track, here was my stab at a translation of the Dutch from the reversed audio (still not sure about the last two syllables - they could be totally wrong)...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.lg15.com/lonelygirl15/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=16926&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=165#p569631
Dutch
-----
vrijdag = friday
nabuurschap = neighborhood
parkeren = park
gaan = go
kijk = to look
dos?
daar = there
ref:
English Dutch dictionary http://dictionaries.travlang.com/EnglishDutch/
English Dutch translation http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
Yeah...funny. I distinctly remember reading kellylen's posts about 3 native speakers saying it was definitely *not* Dutch...
ReplyDeleteBut hey, it's not the first puzzle they fuck up. *roll eyes*
Haha, yeah. I'm Dutch and if you speak Dutch like that here in Holland, nobody will understand you. It's so badly pronounced, I can't believe it. Nice job creators, next time hire a real Dutch person to speak in some lines.
ReplyDeleteClearly it takes someone who knows only a little German and has only heard Dutch spoken once or twice to translate LG15 Dutch. ;)
ReplyDeleteThe discussion thread truely is funny with all the claims and counter claims about what the language might have been.
I kept wondering if it was produced with a speech synthesizer? ... but more likely it was a non-Dutch speaker trying to pronounce the words phonetically, and just doing a poor job of it.