Lost translations
February 10, 2010 11:27 AM   Subscribe

Where can I find translations of the things that aren't said in english and that aren't translated on the TV show Lost?

I thought there would be repository for these things, but it's not on any lost Wiki and google is returning nothing. I'd appreciate it if someone could give me a push in the right direction!
posted by The Devil Tesla to Society & Culture (8 answers total) 4 users marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: Lostpedia has episode transcripts that include foreign language text and translations.

Here's one from last week--it's got some in a foreign language from [XYZ character, if you haven't seen it yet]. I haven't seen last night's so I didn't check that.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 11:44 AM on February 10, 2010


Best answer: Most of the untranslated passages eventually appear on the individual episode pages of Lostpedia. For example, Russian in the "foreign dialogues" section for Enter 77 or Korean in the plot summary of This Place Is Death.

If you're wondering, as I imagine you are, about the most recent episodes, I would guess that someone will probably come along and translate them soon.
posted by Partial Law at 11:46 AM on February 10, 2010


Best answer: If you have any specific questions about Latin or Greek quotes, please feel free to MeMail me and I'll ask my resident classicist and fellow Lost fan.
posted by mmmbacon at 11:59 AM on February 10, 2010


Best answer: they'll usually show up here too.
posted by aquanaut at 12:16 PM on February 10, 2010


Best answer: If you're referring specifically to last night's episode and the words that Lennon said don't have an exact English translation, there's some discussion of them on the Lostpedia "Theories" page for the episode in this section. (Major spoilers for those who haven't seen the episode, naturally.)
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 12:48 PM on February 10, 2010


Response by poster: Ahh, I feel stupid, I didn't see the transcript link in on the wikia pages. Thanks all!
posted by The Devil Tesla at 3:39 PM on February 10, 2010


You totally should have titled this post "Lost In Translation".
posted by Bobby Bittman at 9:12 AM on February 11, 2010 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: You totally should have titled this post "Lost In Translation".

You have no idea how many times I got a result listing that movie when googling for "lost translations." I wanted to make sure it was clear that this wasn't about that movie!
posted by The Devil Tesla at 11:09 AM on February 11, 2010


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