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    Posted: June 09 2008 at 07:55
I wonder if anyone here knows a good website with correct Kobaian translation. The websites that are on here really don't have much.

Unless there's somebody here who can really translate the language really well.

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Points: 32181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2008 at 10:06
I'm really glad you started this thread; I've been wanting to know more about the Kobaian language myself.

This is the best dictionary I could find: http://myfile.hanafos.com/~jangminsu/magma/MAGMA-KOBAIAN-dictionary.html

It's pretty neat, but I'd love to learn even much more about the language.


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not to burst your bubble or anything, because I don't know if this is true, but I heard that Vander just made it up as he went along, of course, I suppose some words being repeated through the course of an album because they sound cool means they have a meaning but idk...
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Yeah I know, he made the words first of all because these particular words went well with the music. In Kobaia, most (some) of the lyrics are Klaus just babbling stuff.

But then Vander started to complex it up a bit and made it a language.

Oh yeah and that's the dictionary that we actually find anywhere here man. Sorry to tell you that.

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That's the best you're gonna get from the interwebz, I'm afraid.  If you speak French, you might be able to decode some of the language using the poem in the 1001 Degrees liner notes as a sort of Rosetta Stone. 

But then again, that's probably what the person who made that online Kobaian dictionary did. 

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Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

TIf you speak French, you might be able to decode some of the language using the poem in the 1001 Degrees liner notes as a sort of Rosetta Stone.

I did that. There's also bits here and there in booklets and online where it is translated into French.
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I wish you luck!  But my guess is that it's designed to cultivate mystery, and so only a few trickles of translation will ever emerge.

Having said that, there may well be educated etymological guesses to make (don't know how you'd guess what any of it means...).  This may be totally obvious already to everyone except me, but how about "Wurdah" - derived from "Wurdalak"?  (i.e. "Les Wurdalaks", pre-Magma band of Vander's, and also apparently a type of vampire.)

Ok, that's it.  I need to get out more, obviously... Embarrassed [Edited, a little pointlessly, for clarity... LOL]


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Just so you know the whole Wurd- branch is attached to death and horror.

Wurd Emgalai = The Demon of The Apocalypse (Bernard Paganotti's Kobaian name)
http://park11.wakwak.com/~elric/Elric_music_magma_kobaian_name.htm

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Originally posted by Grimfurg Grimfurg wrote:

Just so you know the whole Wurd- branch is attached to death and horror.

Haha, I guessed well then! LOL

Wurd Emgalai = The Demon of The Apocalypse (Bernard Paganotti's Kobaian name)

Wow.  That's quite a moniker.  I rather like the idea that the end of the world might be accompanied by some nifty bass playing. Wink

I'd love to know what some of the other Kobaian names mean.  Unfortunately that site seems to be in Korean (??)... yet another language beginning with 'K' that I do not understand... Confused

http://park11.wakwak.com/~elric/Elric_music_magma_kobaian_name.htm
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Paganotti's bass playing is MUCH more powerful than any mere apocalypse.  

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Uhm, Retrospektïw I-II -> MDK's Bass solo = THE APOCALYPSE

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Points: 1065 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2008 at 17:04
You should read this.

I apologise for it in advance!! Embarrassed LOL
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Points: 8844 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2008 at 17:24
TOO MANY WORDS

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Points: 1065 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2008 at 17:47
Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

TOO MANY WORDS

I quite agree... LOL

Carried away by over-enthusiasm as usual! Big%20smile
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Points: 3888 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2008 at 06:56
Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

You should read this.

I apologise for it in advance!! Embarrassed LOL
 
Clap 
....you should read The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle if you haven't already!
 
 
 
 


Edited by Alucard - June 23 2008 at 06:57
Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear
"Hey there! Rotter's Club!
Explain the meaning of this song and share it"

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Points: 1065 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2008 at 10:39
Originally posted by Alucard Alucard wrote:

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....you should read The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle if you haven't already!
 
Hmm, intriguing!  I'll have to have a read of that I think! Tongue  Thanks! Big%20smile

(PS: Ahh, your sig. picture!  You've got me humming 'My Pal Foot Foot'. LOL)
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Points: 265 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2008 at 19:41
Haha KiKi Banquette...

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