part 353 whalers on the moon

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We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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[(Anonymous)]

Jazeker.

[(Anonymous)]

Would it be possible for you to translate Herman van Veen's answer to the following question? I tried Google translator, but it left a few phrases so mangled that I'd rather see what a human has to say about it.

If it's too much work, no problem. But thanks if you can take a look!

Wat ik ook verwarrend vond was dat Ollie de Ooievaar halverwege de serie van geslacht veranderde. Eerst wordt Ollie aangeduid als vrouw en daarna als man. Waarom was dat?
Ook die dingen gebeuren, er wordt heel wat af verbouwd in de wereld. Ik vond het een leuk idee, juist bij de ooievaar, de babybezorger. Ollie heeft wellicht een keuze willen hebben, want als je altijd maar jongetjes en meisjes bezorgt wil je zo af en toe misschien wel de een of de ander zijn. Hij vliegt nu door het leven als man, maar misschien wordt hij ooit weer een vrouw.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure thing.

"Another thing I found confusing was that Ollie the Stork's gender* changed halfway throughout the series. First Ollie is designated as a woman, and then as a man. Why was that?
Those kind of things happen too. There's a lot of rebuilding** going on in the world. I thought it was a nice idea that it happened to the stork, the baby deliverer. Ollie may have wanted to have a choice in the matter, because if you spend all your time delivering boys and girls, you may want to be one or the other every now and then. He's currently flying through life as a man, but maybe someday he'll be a woman again."

*The Dutch word geslacht means both gender and sex.

**This is me nitpicking over semantics so feel free to ignore this. Just like in English with "build" and "rebuild" there are several words in Dutch that imply some kind of construction, but the exact type of construction going on changes a little. Bouwen is simply to build. Herbouwen is to rebuild. The dictionary says verbouwen means to rebuild as well, but the difference between herbouwen and verbouwen is that herbouwen means to build again, while verbouwen is more limited to "to restructure" if that makes sense. Say, if you herbouw your kitchen, you're rebuilding a demolished kitchen. If you verbouw your kitchen, you're making your existing kitchen bigger or smaller. Instead of rebuilding you could also read it as restructuring or perhaps simply construction.

Hope that helped. o/

[tessilon]

If you need more help translating feel free to hit me up by the way. o/

Huh, maybe the meme could use one of those need a translator posts like the kink meme has for willy-nilly stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

Good point!

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you so much, anon! This was extremely helpful and interesting!