The SOL Af-Somali Battle

[N.O.R.F]

The SOL Af-Somali Battle

 

First of all I would like to state that this is in no way designed to take the mickey. It should be good fun and I’m prepared to take part as well (someone post a story for me to translate).

 

Let battle commence.

 

Our esteemed nomads are each tasked with translating a short English story into Somali.

 

Rule:

1. 1 week from today post your translations

2. Absolutely no help from anyone in translating (including through PMs)

 

Try your best people. Apologies in advance if the stories are a little 'odd'. I haven't read them

 

Here goes.

 

Ngonge's story

 

Keep On Singing

Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her 3-year old son, Michael, prepare for a new sibling. They find out that the new baby is going to be a girl, and day after day, night after night, Michael sings to his sister in Mommy's tummy.

The pregnancy progresses normally for Karen, an active member of the Panther Creek United Methodist Church in Morristown,Tennessee. Then the labor pains come. Every five minutes every minute. But complications arise during delivery. Hours of labor. Would a C-section be required?

Finally, Michael's little sister is born. But she is in serious condition. With siren howling in the night, the ambulance rushes the infant to the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Mary's Hospital, Knoxville, Tennessee. The days inch by. The little girl gets worse. The pediatric specialist tells the parents, "There is very little hope. Be prepared for the worst."

Karen and her husband contact a local cemetery about a burial plot. They have fixed up a special room in their home for the new baby - now they plan a funeral.

Michael, keeps begging his parents to let him see his sister, "I want to sing to her," he says.

Week two in intensive care. It looks as if a funeral will come before the week is over. Michael keeps nagging about singing to his sister, but kids are never allowed in Intensive Care. But Karen makes up her mind. She will take Michael whether they like it or not. If he doesn't see his sister now, he may never see her alive.

She dresses him in an oversized scrub suit and marches him into ICU. He looks like a walking laundry basket, but the head nurse recognizes him as a child and bellows, "Get that kid out of here now! No children are allowed.

The mother rises up strong in Karen, and the usually mild-mannered lady glares steel-eyed into the head nurse's face, her lips a firm line. "He is not leaving until he sings to his sister!" Karen tows Michael to his sister's bedside. He gazes at the tiny infant losing the battle to live. And he begins to sing.

In the pure hearted voice of a 3-year-old, Michael sings: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are gray --- "

Instantly the baby girl responds. The pulse rate becomes calm and steady.

Keep on singing, Michael.

"You never know, dear, how much I love you, Please don't take my sunshine away---"

The ragged, strained breathing becomes as smooth as a kitten's purr. Keep on singing, Michael.

"The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping, I dreamed I held you in my arms..." Michael's little sister relaxes as rest, healing rest, seems to sweep over her. Keep on singing, Michael. Tears conquer the face of the bossy head nurse. Karen glows.

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. Please don't, take my sunshine away."

Funeral plans are scrapped. The next, day-the very next day-the little girl is well enough to go home!

Woman's Day magazine called it "the miracle of a brother's song." The medical staff just called it a miracle.

Karen called it a miracle of God's love!

NEVER GIVE UP ON THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE

Ibtisam's story (I know you have a thesis to work on by the way so this one is optional)

 

Brownies

Many parents are hard pressed to explain to their youth why some music, movies, books, and magazines are not acceptable material for them to bring into the home or to listen to or see.

One parent came up with an original idea that is hard to refute. The father listened to all the reasons his children gave for wanting to see a particular "R" Rated movie. It had their favorite actors. Everyone else was seeing it. Even church members said it was great. It was only rated "R" because of the suggestion of sex...they never really showed it. The language was pretty good...the Lord's name was only used in vain three times in the whole movie. The teens did admit there was a scene where a building and a bunch of people were blown up, but the violence was just the normal stuff. It wasn't too bad.

Even if there were a few minor things, the special effects were fabulous and the plot was action packed. However, even with all the justifications the teens made for the "R" rating, the father still wouldn't give in. He didn't even give his children a satisfactory explanation for saying, "No." He just said, "No!"

A little later on that evening the father asked his teens if they would like some brownies he had baked. He explained that he'd taken the family's favorite recipe and added a little something new. The children asked what it was. The father calmly replied that he had added dog poop.

However, he quickly assured them, it was only a little bit. All other ingredients were gourmet quality and he had taken great care to bake the brownies at the precise temperature for the exact time. He was sure the brownies would be superb.

Even with their father's promise that the brownies were of almost perfect quality, the teens would not take any. The father acted surprised. After all, it was only one small part that was causing them to be so stubborn. He was certain they would hardly notice it. Still the teens held firm and would not try the brownies.

The father then told his children how the movie they wanted to see was just like the brownies. Our minds are tricking us into believing that just a little bit of evil won't matter. But, the truth is even a little bit of poop makes the difference between a great treat and something disgusting and totally unacceptable. The father went on to explain that even though the movie industry would have us believe that most of today's movies are acceptable fare for adults and youth, they are not.

Now when this father's children want to do something or see something they should not, the father merely asks them if they would like some of his special brownies . . . and they never ask about that activity again.

Serenity's story (yes you Serenity you!)

 

ARE YOU HAVING A BAD DAY?

A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle when it accidentally slipped into gear. The man, still holding onto the handle bars, was dragged through the glass patio doors and along with the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house. The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room and found her husband lying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle lying next to him, and the shattered patio door. The wife ran to the phone and summoned the ambulance. Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the several flights of stairs to the street to escort the paramedics to her husband.

After the ambulance arrived and transported the man to the hospital, the wife righted the motorcycle and pushed it outside. Seeing that gas was spilled on the floor, the wife got some paper towels, blotted up the gasoline, and threw the towels in the toilet. The man was treated and released to come home. Upon arriving home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle.

He became despondent, went to the bathroom, sat down on the toilet and smoked a cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he flipped it between his legs into the toilet bowl, while seated. The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard the loud explosion and her husband screaming.

She ran into the bathroom and found her husband lying on the floor. His trousers had been blown away and he was suffering burns on the buttocks, the back of his legs, and his groin. The wife again ran to the phone to call the ambulance. The very same paramedic crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the street. The paramedics loaded the husband on to the stretcher and began carrying him to the street. While they were going down the stairs to the street accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how the husband had burned himself. She told them and the paramedics started laughing so hard, one of them slipped and tipped the stretcher, dumping the husband out. He fell down the remaining stairs and broke his arm - Taken from a Florida Newspaper.

Anymore takers????

[nuune]

Norf, easy one's for you here,

not stories thouogh, but quotes from the famous man, former Iraqi Information Minister, take your time sxb

 

Your work starts here

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TREASURY OF DEATHLESS QUOTES --

 

 

"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"

 

"My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all"

 

"Our initial assessment is that they will all die"

 

"I blame Al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans!"

 

"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis."

 

"They're coming to surrender or be burned in their tanks."

 

"No I am not scared, and neither should you be!"

 

"Be assured. Baghdad is safe, protected"

 

"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!"

 

"We are not afraid of the Americans. Allah has condemned them. "and they are condemned."

 

"The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call ... silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies."

 

"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have

started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We

will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly."

 

"I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how ****** they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place."

 

"We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters and their shovels - We have driven them back."

 

"The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps," he said, adding that the British and American forces were "immoral mercenaries" and "war criminals" for such behavior.

"I am not talking about the American people and the British people," he said. "I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children."

 

"We have them surrounded in their tanks"

 

"The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!"

 

"I have detailed information about the situation...which completely proves that what they allege are illusions . . . They lie every day."

 

"Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honor and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts."

 

"Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us."

 

 

"because we will behead you all"

 

"Let the American infidels bask in their illusion"

 

"I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad."

 

Britain "is not worth an old shoe"

 

"we have given them a sour taste"

 

"blood-sucking"

 

Of US troops: "They are most welcome. We will butcher them."

 

"We will welcome them with bullets and shoes."

 

"We are in control. They are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, "

 

"The British forces which were dropped there have been eliminated mostly on the (battle)field, except for those who fled ... It is a complete defeat ... Amazingly the Americans have pushed the British to do that. They pushed them ahead as if it is an experiment. The result was very tragic for the British."

 

“We have placed them in a quagmire from which they can never emerge except dead”

 

"Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire"

 

"I speak better English than this villain Bush"

 

"These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying"

 

"They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any

place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are

trying to sell to the others an illusion."

 

"Their failure in this regard is abysmal. They want to tell the world changes thought - as a matter of fact, they do not respect the world, they want to tell taxpayers and the domestic public to keep them deceived. We will embroil them, confuse them and keep them in the quagmire. They have begun to tell more lies so that they might continue with the perpetration of their crimes. May they be accursed."

 

"We will kill them all........most of them."

 

"They are like a snake and we are going to cut it in pieces."

 

"They do not even have control over themselves! Do not believe them!"

 

"I would like to clarify a simple fact here: How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged. Al-Nasiriyah cannot be besieged. Basra cannot be besieged."

 

"the American Minister of Defense Rumsfeld, and I won't say shamelessly, because they don't know what shame means. These are criminals. The whole word can hear the warning sirens. This criminal sitting in the White House is a pathetic criminal and his Defense Minister deserves to be beaten. These criminals lie to the world because they are criminals by nature and conditioning. They consider this a military site! Shame on you! You will forever be shamed! You have ruined the reputation of the American people in the most terrible way! Shame on you! And we will destroy you!"

 

"They are trapped in Umm Qasr. They are trapped near Basra. They are trapped near Nasiriyah. They are trapped near Najaf. They are trapped everywhere."

 

Called Americans and Brits "Tarateer"– In Iraqi slang, Tartoor means a guy full of farts (i.e. hot air)

 

"they are nowhere near the airport ..they are lost in the desert...they can not read a compass...they are retarded."

 

"They are not in Baghdad. They are not in control of any airport. I tell you this. It is all a lie. They lie. It is a hollywood movie. You do not believe them."

[Jacaylbaro]

This is for you North:

 

 

In My World

 

Nowadays, I never go anywhere without doing my ablutions first. I do not leave house or work place without it. Why should I do that? Is it going over my obligations? Or is it to keep clean? Or is it, basically, the fear of God and what will happen to me in the hereafter?

 

In my younger days, I thought life was going to go on and on and on…without ever coming to a stop one day. I often forgot that I was answerable to God for what I did with my life.

 

Will I be punished for those rash days? Will my repentance in my old age suffice to give the cherished entrance to Janna?

 

I would be very grateful if you sent a lost soul a small portion of your wisdom to console it. I sincerely do hope that you had never erred in God’s ways.

 

If not for a passing by mullah some fifteen years ago, I would still have been missing the trail of virtues. And for a century to come, I will have been still going my way, hand in hand with a gleeful devil.

[Jacaylbaro]

looooooool ... i can see nuune posted before i did so.

 

Well, then North will have to choose one ,,

[nuune]

He will choose the easy one sxb, ka bax meesha, I have seen Northener speaking pure fluent Somali, and he can finish these quotes quickly!

[N.O.R.F]

There you have it Nuune, JB and Paragon are the judges. :cool:

[Jacaylbaro]

Is everybody ready to start then ??

 

Lemme hear Ibtisam, Serenity and Ngonge's confirmation ,,,

[N.O.R.F]

^^I think we need more. Who else?

[MZanzi]

STOIC .ninkaas afsomaliga halag qabto ..madaxa ayuu kusocod siiyay

[Jacaylbaro]

Ducaysane soo qabo ,,,

[MZanzi]

JC labadan gabdhood qaraabo aan nahay hadaan ku sheegaaya aabahood haduusan Bud madaxa kaala dhicin

[Jacaylbaro]

looooooooooooool ,,,, u sheeg bal

[STOIC]

Mudanayaasha iyo Marwoyinka maar haataat ansixisaan inaan afsomali anangaraneyn miyeynaan kuhaboneen inlaibaro afka.Tartanka halka laguhayo wamit xeerka waxbaraashathaa kasohorjetha.Sheeko baatmesha kuheysaan...Waar bal taanokaalay yaarkaay?

 

waaxaan iskubiraya koox ka kooban Mucaaradkaa kasohorjethaa aflagateyntaa.Sidaa darteedna waxaan u soo jeediyeen in wax laislakaabto.

Waxaa kale oo aan JB kuleyhaay afkaa taatka kamaxiikttit ninyahoow

[N.O.R.F]

^^^LoooooooooL

 

Thats actually a decent attempt Stoic

[NGONGE]

The one on the right is yummy.

 

As for the task, I want to lodge my protest in advance. This is discrimination, this is. I shall only participate if the competition is a free for all and the judges are agreed upon. People like Nepthy, KK, Rudy, Ayoub, Lander, Malika and, even my dear ayeeyo, would struggle in writing a proper translation to these stories. I demand that they join in. I am confident that I shall pass with flying colours (or at least ahead of six other people, including North).