East of Eden second language

Fitzcarraldo wrote: Fassbinder,   You are obviously desperate for an answer, so I asked Geoff Nicholson from the group. He told me the following:   I believe the language we used on Mercator Projected was Serbo-Croat. It was spoken by Dave Arbus who had recently graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Languages. The language on Snafu is English -we just ran the tapes backwards. Geoff Nicholson (East of Eden)   Happy now?

The language spoken on Mercator Projected is Croatian, the accent seems to be a rural north Croatian (Slavonia region probably). Here's the translation.

Croat guy: "Bio je jedan čovek koji se sedio u restoranu" (There was one guy sitting in a restaurant)
Translation: "There was an Irish homosexual sitting in a restaurant"

Croat guy: "On je rekao: Konobaru!" (He said: Waiter!)
Translation: "He said: Waiter! Waiter! This soup isn't half cold"

Croat guy: "A on konobaru, on je rekao, pa nisam gladan, ništa neću" (He told the Waiter: I'm not hungry, I don't want anything)
Translation: "To Which the waiter replied..."

Croat guy: "A on je rekao, pa gospodin! Gospodin!" - (And he said, Well Mister! Mister!)
Laughter.



I suppose they had the Croat guy recorded telling them a joke of which they took cuts and pieces because this conversation (not to mention translation:) makes no sense.


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