4569: Garfield Multi-language: 1978 meets 2003

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Garfield Multi-language: 1978 meets 2003
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Made by: yakkoyaks


Explanation[edit | edit source]

Quite potentially due to the large amount of fan-translation effort necessary to produce results due to the only non-English official translations readily available being in Spanish (the original strip's official Spanish translation) and even that being far from a perfect archive, "Garfield Multi-language" has to date not become a running gag on Square Root of Minus Garfield.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

I'm making a new meme! It's called "Garfield Multi-language". You see, first you show a comic in English with either the captions "American English" or "English". The rest is the same comic but in different languages. If you can't find a translation, use a fan-translation. A fan-translation is like a fan-dub, you get the original strip and then translate it to the language you want then add the language with the line "(Fan-Translation)" next to it.

Original strip: 2003-06-14.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

1: Present Garfield: I'm gonna be 25 years old... man, where did the time go?
1978 Garfield {walking past}: Is the fridge still this way?
Present Garfield: Yeah, help yourself
1978 Garfield {offscreen}: Thanks, ...Me!
{Present Garfield realizes who he was talking to}

2: Present Garfield: Voy a tener 25 años... ¿Adónde se fue el tiempo
1978 Garfield {walking past}: ¿El refrigerado aún està allí?
Present Garfield: Si, sirvete
1978 Garfield: {offscreen}: Gracias... yo
{Present Garfield realizes who he was talking to}

3: Present Garfield: Je vais avoir 25 ans ... Homme, où est passé le temps?
1978 Garfield {walking past}: Le frigo est-il toujours comme ça?
Present Garfield: Ouais, aide toi
1978 Garfield {offscreen}: Merci ... moi
{Present Garfield realizes who he was talking to}

4: Present Garfield:سأكون عمري 25 الوقت؟عامًا ... رجل ، أين ذهب
1978 Garfield {walking past} هل لا تزال الثلاجة بهذهالطريقة؟
Present Garfield: نعم ، ساعد نفسك
1978 Garfield {offscreen}: شكرا لي
{Present Garfield realizes who he was talking to}

5: (Note: Read right to left)
Present Garfield: 私は25歳になるつもりです...男、時間はどこに行きましたか?
1978 Garfield {walking past}: 冷蔵庫はまだこのようになっていますか?
Present Garfield: ええ、あなた自身を助けます
1978 Garfield {offscreen}: ありがとう、……
{Present Garfield realizes who he was talking to}

6: Present Garfield: Tendré 25 años ... Hombre, ¿a dónde se fue el tiempo?
1978 Garfield {walking past}: ¿La nevera sigue siendo así?
Present Garfield: Si, ayúdate
1978 Garfield {offscreen}: Gracias, me ...
{Present Garfield realizes who he was talking to}

Trivia[edit | edit source]

The transcripts of all of the strips except the original English-language one got hit with mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is lost to the public due to this.

  • The fact that the official Spanish-language translation got hit with mojibake demonstrates just how narrow the character set of characters that do not get affected by mojibake characters actually is, with characters common in many non-English European languages and even in some loanwords in English-language vernacular being affected.