Can TV be dubbed into Latin? Who would be the best voice actors: Italians? Spaniards? Finns? I answer these questions and more in this collaboration with NexusTV.it

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METHODS OF TRANSLATION
The scope of this translation was to take advantage of the flexibility of Latin syntax and idiom in order to match the syllables and, where possible, original Italian word order as much as possible. The primary goal was syllable matching above all, even at the expense of more limited notions of Latinity: for the goal was not to limit the translation to a slavish imitation of a specific Late Republican Classical author like Caesar or Cicero (this is only one type of Latin), but to utilize the entire range of 2,300 years of literature to create a text that would allow the voice actors to match the original words very closely.

N.B. In Latin of all periods, it is NOT necessary for the verb to come at the end of the sentence! This is a common misconception. Latin is not exclusively SOV (subjectobjectverb word order) but also SVO and even OVS.

Poliziotto
Ma cosa fa con quell’arnese? Ostacola il traffico!
Sed quidnam facis istō apparātū? Obstās commeātuī!

Pittore
Devo dipingere una parete grande; ci vuole un pennello grande.
Dēbeō pingere parietem magnum; est opus pēniclō magnō.

Poliziotto
Non ci vuole un pennello grande, ma un grande pennello: Cinghiale.
Nōn est opus pēniclō magnō, sed magnō pēniclō: Cinghiale.

Narratore
Cinghiale: La grande marca della perfezione, per dipingere, verniciare, tinteggiare per il faidate, c’è sempre un pennello marca Cinghiale che ti aiuta.
Cinghiale: Nota magna perfectiōnis, ad pingendum, dealbandum, colōrandum, ut ipse faciās, est semper pēniculus notae Cinghiale tibi auxiliō.

Uomini
Presto e bene sempre avviene con pennelli Cinghiale.
Brevī est bene! Semper ēvēnit sī pēniclīs Cinghiale.

The slogan is a somewhat musical gingle, and the syllables need to match very well, so a literal translation absolutely will not due.

"brevī est bene" : note that, as always, the *lip synching is critical*, thus a bilabial consonant, here 'b' in "brevī", is very important.

"brevī" is short for the longer idiomatic phrase "brevī spatiō temporis" meaning "in a short period of time," a well as "fast, quickly." Thus "Brevī est bene!" here means "Soon is good!" and is intended to be an exhortation to buy the paintbrushes at once.

The second phrase "semper ēvēnit" means "it has always turned out," that is, using Cinghiale paintbrushes, it's always gone well. Thus "sī pēniclīs Cinghiale," "if it was with Cinghiale paintbrushes," then "semper ēvēnit" then "it always got done," i.e. it was always successfully completed.

This strong divergence from the literal meaning of the original Italian is, as explained above, to preserve syllable length and stresses in the same place, and most importantly lip shape for lip synching, which in this demostration of concept takes priority over all other concerns.


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00:00 Intro
01:00 Documentary of Latin Dubbing by NexusTV
09:30 My impressions: the art of doppiaggio
11:53 The exciting future