i dremt i dremt (T-ara compared to cats)

[koganbot]

I dremt there are Websites devoted to pictures of cats who look like members of T-ara.* Maybe even an animated TV show where T-ara (and all other people) are cats. I'm donating items to Goodwill, and I see, in a bag next to mine, decorative eggs that are painted as T-ara cats. As my friend Mary is driving me back, I proudly tell her, "This is where I got the idea." I'm chosen to direct the movie. It is originally to be lighthearted, but I say to myself, "I'm gonna do this right." In the movie, things are going well in Catworld, T-ara performing, sometimes as a band, playing all the instruments themselves. Then an evil sorceress transforms them into new creatures: human beings. There are worries that I'm going overbudget. We run a saturation ad campaign, in the U.S. as well as Korea, playing one clip over and over:

Jiyeon: When I move my arms, they seem as if they're not my arms but someone else's. When I move my legs, they seem as if they're not my legs but someone else's.

Psychiatrist: How long have you felt this way?

Jiyeon: Always.

Strangely, this dream makes almost no reference to the recent controversy, though there is the flicker of a thought that we have to mention it in the movie: I make the quick decision to write it briefly into an early cat scene, but not as a major event.

*This idea is not far-fetched, though when I do a Google image search for "cats that look like T-ara," I only get T-ara looking like cats. Now that I think of it, the mv for the Japanese version of "Bo Peep Bo Peep" has them as cats and (briefly) cats as them:

And T-ara have endorsed the Tony Moly Cats Wink Crazy Tint Stick (cat-shaped lip balm sticks, "hybrid lip product that's lip balm and tint that changes to a color that best suits your skin tone").

Comments

[koganbot]

Fan video uploaded by her record company:



Title seems to translate more literally as "I Know How To Play A Little." Google translate gives us: "What I know how to play a little."

Seems like an attempt to return to an earlier (and more lucrative?) persona, as well as to do her own take on "Gangnam Style."

[askbask.livejournal.com]

걸, which serves a function in the syntax, can also be the hangul for \girl\, and looking at her cover art that's clearly what she intends, so it becomes "I'm a girl who knows how to play a little", but the translations I've seen seem to oversee this.

Adventures in Google Translate

[koganbot]

And perhaps pop!gasa thinks that "play a little" is idiomatically better translated as "party." But also, it doesn't put a space between "놀줄." When I run their version ("난 좀 놀줄 아는걸") through Google Translate, I get "What I know some noljul." I would assume that the Dline Artmedia spelling (the one from the fan video, with a space: "난 좀 놀 줄 아는 걸") is correct. It generates "What I know how to play a little" in Google Translate. But interestingly, when I run that identical phrase except with (as in the video title) E.via's name first in Romanization and then in parentheses "e.via (이비아) 난 좀 놀 줄 아는 걸" Google Translate gives us "e.via (Via) I know how to play a little something"; if I simply add — as in the video you embedded — a dash after "(이비아)" ("e.via (이비아) - 난 좀 놀 줄 아는걸") we get "(Via) e.via I think I know how to play a little" (makes no difference whether or not there's a space before the final syllable, though my embed and yours differ in this regard: "아는 걸" vs. "아는걸").

These are what I get as results of my experimentation:

난 좀 놀줄 아는걸 = What I know some noljul
난 좀 놀 줄 아는걸 = What I know how to play a little
난 좀 놀 줄 아는 걸 = What I know how to play a little
e.via (이비아) 난 좀 놀 줄 아는 걸 = e.via (Via) I know how to play a little something
난 좀 놀 줄 아는 걸 UCC 동영상 = What I know how to play some UCC Video
e.via (이비아) 난 좀 놀 줄 아는 걸 UCC 동영상 = e.via (vias) that I know how to get to play UCC Video
e.via (이비아) - 난 좀 놀 줄 아는걸 (feat. 이수정 (Lee Su Jung)) = (Via) e.via - something I know how to play a little (feat. Lee, Soo Lee, Su Jung ())
난 좀 놀 줄 아는걸 (feat. 이수정 (Lee Su Jung)) = I know I'd get to play (feat. Lee, Soo Lee, Su Jung ())

For "걸" Google Translate simply gives "I" (but when I go the other way, English to Korean, I get "나는" for "I"). "아는 걸" alone gives us "What he knows," with a comma inserted after "knows."

I'd say Google Translate has a long way to go with Korean. I realize that Norwegian, which you say Google Translate does well, is a lot closer to English than Korean is. Still, I suspect that the Germanic languages (which include English and Norwegian) have gotten more attention from Google Translate than Korean has.

Re: Adventures in Google Translate

[askbask.livejournal.com]

"To play" is often used for partying. You go out on town and "play" with friends.

[koganbot]

But yeah, with the English word "girl" prominently in the title on the front jacket in the 걸 location, "I'm A Girl Who Knows How To Play A Little" seems like the best translation (though if it were to be released here, I'd just make it "I'm A Girl Who Knows How To Play").