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arqueeteI was bored (Like always), so I translated another little bit of Gaston Leroux's Le Fantome de l'Opéra for your entertainment. I always loved this part, because Raoul deserves to be bitch-slapped at several points in the story, this being one of them, and Christine does so verbally.
Original Text:
C'est un engagement que je ne vous demande point, et c'est une promesse que je ne vous ferai pas! prononça la jeune fille avec fierté. Je suis libre de mes actions, monsieur de Changy; vous n'avez aucun droit à les contrôler et je vous prierai de vous en dispenser désormais. Quant à ce que j'ai fait depuis quinze jours, il n'y a qu'un homme au monde qui aurait le droit d'exiger que je lui en fasse le récit : mon mari! Or, je n'ai pas de mari, et je ne me marierai jamais!
Arqueete's translation (I re-worded a few things to make more sense in English, too):
"It's an engagement that I didn't propose to you, and it's something I will not promise you!" said the girl furiously. "I am able to act freely, Monsieur de Changy, you have no right to be controlling and I will ask that you avoid it henceforward. Regarding what I've been doing for 15 days, There is only one man in the world who has the right to demand that I account to him: my husband! But, I don't have a husband, and I will never marry!"
YOU TELL HIM CHRISTINE. REPRESENT.
Shelli recently translated some Othello, and Phantom of the Opera in 15 minutes is for the movie of the musical, here is a wonderfully modern-day translation of this scene of the PotO novel (Basically the beginning of the chapter 9: 'Il faut oublier le nom de «la voix d'homme»' for anyone who cares)
Raoul: *bursts through door* WHERE'S THE TRAMPSLUT WHOREBITCH?!
Christine: Hi.
Mme. Valerius: Trampslut whorebitch where?!
Christine: Just ignore the fop, mommy.
Raoul: WHERE'VE YOU BEEN, BITCH?!
Mme. Valerius: With her music teacher, of course!
Christine: She means, uh, that one music teacher, which I don't have... Cough. Cough.
Raoul: Her music teacher... THE PHANTOM?!
Christine: Uh, what Phantom?
Mme. Valerius: I'm confuzzled D:
Raoul: Your taughter has been SEDUCED by an IMPOSTER.
Mme. Valerius: Imposter where?!
Christine: There is no imposter. Raoul, shut your mouth before I smack your well made-up face.
Raoul: But it's TRUE! There is no Angel of Music- well, there is, but he's not an Angel of Music, he's this guy who's trying to TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR SURROGATE DAUGHTER!
Mme. Valerius: OMGWTF what do you mean?!
Christine: STFU FOO'
Raoul: Christine, if you really haven't been off luffing creepy men in the opera basement, tell us all where you've been!
Christine: I've been, uh... somewhere. NONE OF YOUR BUISINESS, FOP DDD: Yo' a'int mah husband!
Raoul: Well, apparently SOMEONE is your husband, considering that WEDDING RING YOU'RE WEARING.
Christine: Ring, what ring? *hackcough*
Raoul: The wedding ring. On your finger. FROM YOUR CREEPY CORPSE MUSIC TEACHER WHO IS MADLY IN LOVE WITH YOU.
Mme. Valerius: Christine, you never told me you were engaged! I would've thrown you a party or gotten you a gift or something! D: Teh FOMG.
Christine: WTF RAOUL DD: What gives you that totallynottrue idea?
Raoul: Because I was sneaking around in you dressing roo-
Christine: OMG WHAT?! O___O
Raoul: -but that's not important! What's important is, I saw you being all FOMGMINORORGASM over him and saw him KIDNAP you right before my eyes! WTF CHRISTINE?! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING GOING ALONG WITH CREEPY MEN IN CAPES?!
Mme. Valerius: I'm confuzzled again D:
Christine: He had candy and he sings pretty D: But even if I DID follow a creepy masked man through the mirror in my dressing room, that doesn't mean he KIDNAPPED ME. Just because a creepy sewer-dwelling murderous genius wants to bring me home doesn't mean he was SEDUCING me! DON'T YOU THINK I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?! 'sides, who are you to say he's a CREEPY SEWER-DWELLER anyway? You don't even know him! He might be really romantic and give me Buquets and stuff!
Raoul: I know more than you think, Christine! I know, I know... his name is ÉRIK!
Christine: FOMG D: EAVESDROPPER.
Raoul: D: I'M LEAVING.
Mme. Valerius: Bye! :D Too bad you couldn't stay for cake!
That sort of got away from the order of events as it went on... XD
Original Text:
C'est un engagement que je ne vous demande point, et c'est une promesse que je ne vous ferai pas! prononça la jeune fille avec fierté. Je suis libre de mes actions, monsieur de Changy; vous n'avez aucun droit à les contrôler et je vous prierai de vous en dispenser désormais. Quant à ce que j'ai fait depuis quinze jours, il n'y a qu'un homme au monde qui aurait le droit d'exiger que je lui en fasse le récit : mon mari! Or, je n'ai pas de mari, et je ne me marierai jamais!
Arqueete's translation (I re-worded a few things to make more sense in English, too):
"It's an engagement that I didn't propose to you, and it's something I will not promise you!" said the girl furiously. "I am able to act freely, Monsieur de Changy, you have no right to be controlling and I will ask that you avoid it henceforward. Regarding what I've been doing for 15 days, There is only one man in the world who has the right to demand that I account to him: my husband! But, I don't have a husband, and I will never marry!"
YOU TELL HIM CHRISTINE. REPRESENT.
Shelli recently translated some Othello, and Phantom of the Opera in 15 minutes is for the movie of the musical, here is a wonderfully modern-day translation of this scene of the PotO novel (Basically the beginning of the chapter 9: 'Il faut oublier le nom de «la voix d'homme»' for anyone who cares)
Raoul: *bursts through door* WHERE'S THE TRAMPSLUT WHOREBITCH?!
Christine: Hi.
Mme. Valerius: Trampslut whorebitch where?!
Christine: Just ignore the fop, mommy.
Raoul: WHERE'VE YOU BEEN, BITCH?!
Mme. Valerius: With her music teacher, of course!
Christine: She means, uh, that one music teacher, which I don't have... Cough. Cough.
Raoul: Her music teacher... THE PHANTOM?!
Christine: Uh, what Phantom?
Mme. Valerius: I'm confuzzled D:
Raoul: Your taughter has been SEDUCED by an IMPOSTER.
Mme. Valerius: Imposter where?!
Christine: There is no imposter. Raoul, shut your mouth before I smack your well made-up face.
Raoul: But it's TRUE! There is no Angel of Music- well, there is, but he's not an Angel of Music, he's this guy who's trying to TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR SURROGATE DAUGHTER!
Mme. Valerius: OMGWTF what do you mean?!
Christine: STFU FOO'
Raoul: Christine, if you really haven't been off luffing creepy men in the opera basement, tell us all where you've been!
Christine: I've been, uh... somewhere. NONE OF YOUR BUISINESS, FOP DDD: Yo' a'int mah husband!
Raoul: Well, apparently SOMEONE is your husband, considering that WEDDING RING YOU'RE WEARING.
Christine: Ring, what ring? *hackcough*
Raoul: The wedding ring. On your finger. FROM YOUR CREEPY CORPSE MUSIC TEACHER WHO IS MADLY IN LOVE WITH YOU.
Mme. Valerius: Christine, you never told me you were engaged! I would've thrown you a party or gotten you a gift or something! D: Teh FOMG.
Christine: WTF RAOUL DD: What gives you that totallynottrue idea?
Raoul: Because I was sneaking around in you dressing roo-
Christine: OMG WHAT?! O___O
Raoul: -but that's not important! What's important is, I saw you being all FOMGMINORORGASM over him and saw him KIDNAP you right before my eyes! WTF CHRISTINE?! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING GOING ALONG WITH CREEPY MEN IN CAPES?!
Mme. Valerius: I'm confuzzled again D:
Christine: He had candy and he sings pretty D: But even if I DID follow a creepy masked man through the mirror in my dressing room, that doesn't mean he KIDNAPPED ME. Just because a creepy sewer-dwelling murderous genius wants to bring me home doesn't mean he was SEDUCING me! DON'T YOU THINK I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?! 'sides, who are you to say he's a CREEPY SEWER-DWELLER anyway? You don't even know him! He might be really romantic and give me Buquets and stuff!
Raoul: I know more than you think, Christine! I know, I know... his name is ÉRIK!
Christine: FOMG D: EAVESDROPPER.
Raoul: D: I'M LEAVING.
Mme. Valerius: Bye! :D Too bad you couldn't stay for cake!
That sort of got away from the order of events as it went on... XD
