{"id":7911,"date":"2014-02-13T12:15:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/summathissummathat\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2017-03-17T14:58:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T20:58:59","slug":"frozens-let-it-go-gets-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/summathissummathat\/2014\/02\/frozens-let-it-go-gets-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen’s “Let It Go” …Gets Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Google Translate<\/a>, you\u2019re doing it wrong. (Or is that \u201cdoing it very, VERY right?<\/a>\u201c)<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t belt like Idina Menzel, but I can mess around with Google translate. That software can really destroy a song\u2026and yet make it way too funny not to share.<\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\nBy way of comparison:<\/p>\n<blockquote>The snow glows white on the mountain tonight \nNot a footprint to be seen \nA kingdom of isolation \nAnd it looks like I\u2019m the queen<\/p>\nThe wind is howling like this swirling storm inside \nCouldn\u2019t keep it in, heaven knows I tried<\/p>\nDon\u2019t let them in, don\u2019t let them see \nBe the good girl you always have to be \nConceal, don\u2019t feel, don\u2019t let them know \nWell, now they know<\/p>\nLet it go, let it go \nCan\u2019t hold it back anymore \nLet it go, let it go \nTurn away and slam the door<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Disney's Frozen "Let It Go" Sequence Performed by Idina Menzel\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/moSFlvxnbgk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/blockquote>\nI particularly love the way the escalating series of Google translations changed \u201cLet It Go\u201d to \u201cGive Up.\u201d That\u2026doesn\u2019t seem entirely faithful. (I am also exceedingly amused by the fact that\u00a0<a title=\"Malinda Kathleen Reese\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/malineka146\" target=\"_blank\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=mvj8UtTnIIeI8gH_h4GYCQ\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Malinda Kathleen Reese\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0video has almost 600,000 views [UPDATED: \u201cover 600,000\u201d]<\/strong>, and her previous \u201cMost Viewed\u201d has 4,000. She must be thrilled.)<\/p>\nI haven\u2019t seen the film, so I suspect the \u201ctranslation\u201d is more amusing to me because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2014\/02\/ready-for-summer-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">I lack any context<\/a> on which to hang it. But it was a hilarious few minutes. And then I got distracted by the translating prospects:<\/p>\n<blockquote>These \u201cgood times, this time was the worst; this silly age of wisdom, the old belief that you do not trust your age; it is outside the spotlight of the off-season, that spring of despair, the dark winter season before us; no one is anything before us; we go to heaven, we change the way we go \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMy thoughts exactly, Google Translate. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities#Chapter_I_-_The_Period\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">My thoughts exactly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7954\" title=\"frozen\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/109\/2014\/02\/frozen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"329\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google Translate, you\u2019re doing it wrong. (Or is that \u201cdoing it very, VERY right?\u201c) I can\u2019t belt like Idina Menzel, but I can mess around with Google translate. That software can really destroy a song\u2026and yet make it way too funny not to share. By way of comparison: The snow glows white on the mountain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1286,"featured_media":7954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-music","category-quodlibets"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Frozen's "Let It Go" ...Gets Away<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google Translate, you're doing it wrong. (Or is that "doing it very, VERY right?") 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