Rives: A mockingbird remix of TED2006

Translator: Matej Divjak Reviewer: Nika Kotnik

Mockingbirds are badass.

Ptice oponašalke so frajerke.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

They are.

Res so.

Oponašalci - Mimus polyglottos - so MC-ji živalskega kraljestva.

Mockingbirds -- that's Mimus polyglottos --

are the emcees of the animal kingdom.

Poslušajo in oponašajo in remiksajo, kar jim je všeč.

They listen and mimic and remix what they like.

They rock the mic outside my window every morning.

Vsako jutro nastopajo pred mojim oknom.

I can hear them sing the sounds of the car alarms

Slišim jih peti zvoke avtomobilskih alarmov, kot da so pesmi pomladi.

like they were songs of spring.

Če lahko vi izgovorite, lahko oponašalec to zavrešči.

I mean, if you can talk it, a mockingbird can squawk it.

So check it, I'm gonna to catch mockingbirds.

Zato poglejte, ulovil bom oponašalce.

I'm going to trap mockingbirds all across the nation

Ujel bom oponašalce po vsej državi

in jih nežno vstavil v steklenice, da bodo kot molotovke z oponašalci.

and put them gently into mason jars like mockingbird Molotov cocktails.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

Yeah. And as I drive through a neighborhood,

Ja. In ko se bom peljal po soseski, recimo,

say, where people got-a-lotta, I'll take a mockingbird I caught

kjer imajo ljudje veliko, bom vzel oponašalca, ujetega v soseski,

in a neighborhood where folks ain't got nada and just let it go, you know.

kjer ljudje nimajo nič, in ga bom kar spustil, veste.

Up goes the bird, out come the words, "Juanito, Juanito,

Ptič bo vzletel in zaklical: "Juanito, Juanito,

vente a comer mi hijo!"

pridi in pojej mojega sina!"

Oh, postal bom Johnny Appleseed zvoka.

Oh, I'm going to be the Johnny Appleseed of sound.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

Križaril bom po naključnih ulicah s Cadillacom kabrioletom

Cruising random city streets, rocking a drop-top Cadillac

z veliko zadnjo klopjo naloženo s 13 rjavimi papirnatimi Walmart vrečami

with a big backseat, packing like 13 brown paper Walmart bags

full of loaded mockingbirds, and I'll get everybody.

polnimi nabitih oponašalcev in dobil bom vsakega.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

I'll get the nitwit on the network news saying,

Dobil bom bedaka s poročil, ki pravi: "Kmalu se vrnemo z več o krizi."

"We'll be back in a moment with more on the crisis."

Dobil bom kretena, ki v baru sprašuje po znamki leda.

I'll get some asshole at a watering hole asking what brand the ice is.

Dobil bom gospo v pralnici, ki vedno ve, kaj pomeni biti prijazen.

I'll get that lady at the laundromat who always seems to know what being nice is.

I'll get your postman making dinner plans.

Dobil bom vašega poštarja, ko načrtuje večerjo.

I'll get the last time you lied.

Izvedel bom, kdaj ste se nazadnje zlagali.

I'll get, "Baby, just give me the frickin' TV guide."

Dobil bom: "Srce, daj mi prekleti TV spored."

I'll get a lonely, little sentence with real error in it,

Dobil bom osamljen, kratek stavek s pravo napako:

"Yeah, I guess I could come inside, but only for a minute."

"Ja, verjetno lahko vstopim, a samo za minuto."

(Laughter)

(smeh)

I'll get an ESL class in Chinatown learning "It's Raining, It's Pouring."

Dobil bom tečajnike angleščine, ki se v kitajski četrti učijo: "Dežuje, lije."

I'll put a mockingbird on a late-night train just to get an old man snoring.

Oponašalca bom dal na pozni vlak, samo da bom dobil starca, ki smrči.

I'll get your ex-lover telling someone else, "Good morning."

Dobil bom vašega bivšega ljubimca, ko nekomu drugemu reče: "Dobro jutro."

I'll get everyone's good mornings.

Dobil bom dobra jutra vseh.

I don't care how you make 'em.

Ni mi mar, kako jih izgovorite.

Aloha. Konichiwa. Shalom. Ah-Salam Alaikum.

Aloha. Konichiwa. Šalom. Salam alejkum.

Everybody means everybody, means everybody here.

Vsak pomeni vsak, pomeni vsak tukaj.

And so maybe I'll build a gilded cage.

In tako bom mogoče naredil zlato kletko.

I'll line the bottom with old notebook pages.

Dno bom obložil s stranmi iz stare beležke.

Inside it, I will place a mockingbird for --

V njo bom dal oponašalca za -

kratka razlaga, hipijevske starše.

short explanation, hippie parents.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

What does a violin have to do with technology?

Kaj ima violina s tehnologijo?

Where in the world is this world heading?

Kam za vraga gre ta svet?

On one end, gold bars --

Na eni strani zlate palice -

on the other, an entire planet.

na drugi strani, cel planet.

We are 12 billion light years from the edge.

Smo 12 milijard svetlobnih let od roba. To je ugibanje.

That's a guess.

Space is length and breadth continued indefinitely,

Prostor je dolžina in širina, ki se nadaljuje v neskončnost,

but you cannot buy a ticket to travel commercially to space in America

a v Ameriki ni moč kupiti vozovnice za komercialni let v vesolje,

because countries are beginning to eat like us, live like us and die like us.

ker države pričenjajo jesti kot mi, živeti kot mi in umirati kot mi.

You might wanna avert your gaze, because that

Mogoče bolje, da se ozrete stran, ker je to pupek, ki si bo pravkar regeneriral ud,

is a newt about to regenerate its limb,

in rokovanje razširi več bacilov kot poljubljanje.

and shaking hands spreads more germs than kissing.

There's about 10 million phage per job.

Obstaja okrog 10 mio fagov za vsako delo.

It's a very strange world inside a nanotube.

V nanocevkah je zelo čuden svet.

Ženske lahko govorijo, črnci smučajo, belci gradijo močne zgradbe,

Women can talk; black men ski; white men build strong buildings;

we build strong suns.

gradimo močna sonca.

The surface of the Earth is absolutely riddled with holes,

Površina Zemlje je popolnoma posejana z luknjami

and here we are, right in the middle.

in mi smo tukaj, točno na sredini.

(smeh)

(Laughter)

Glas življenja nas kliče, da pridemo in se učimo.

It is the voice of life that calls us to come and learn.

When all the little mockingbirds fly away,

Ko vsi mali oponašalci odletijo,

they're going to sound like the last four days.

bodo zveneli kot zadnji štirje dnevi.

I will get uptown gurus, downtown teachers,

Dobil bom guruje iz sosesk, učitelje iz centra,

revne umetnike in dilerje, filipinske pridigarje in puhalnike listja, natakarje,

broke-ass artists and dealers, and Filipino preachers, leaf blowers,

bartenders, boob-job doctors, hooligans, garbage men,

povečevalce jošk, huligane, smetarje,

your local Congressmen in the spotlight, guys in the overhead helicopters.

vaše kongresnike pod reflektorji, fante v helikopterjih.

Everybody gets heard.

Vsi bodo slišani.

Everybody gets this one, honest mockingbird as a witness.

Vsak bo dobil enega iskrenega oponašalca kot pričo.

And I'm on this.

In delam na tem. Delam na tem, dokler se ne razširi s klepetalnicami

I'm on this 'til the whole thing spreads,

in posnemovalci in mamami, ki dajejo otroke spat

with chat rooms and copycats and moms maybe tucking kids into bed

singing, "Hush, little baby, don't say a word.

pojoč: "Pst, ljubo dete, niti besede,

Wait for the man with the mockingbird."

na moža z oponašalcem počakaj."

(Laughter)

(smeh)

Yeah. And then come the news crews, and

Ja. In potem pridejo novinarji

in intervjuji ljudi z ulice in pisma urednikom.

the man-in-the-street interviews, and the letters to the editor.

Vsi sprašujejo, kdo je odgovoren za to po celem mestu,

Everybody asking, just who is responsible for this citywide,

po vsej državi razširjeno kakofonijo oponašalcev in nekdo bo končno namignil

nationwide mockingbird cacophony, and somebody finally is going to tip

the City Council of Monterey, California off to me,

Mestnemu svetu Montereyja v Kaliforniji, da sem to jaz

in ponudili mi bodo ključ mestnih vrat.

and they'll offer me a key to the city.

Pozlačen, prevelik ključ mestnih vrat

A gold-plated, oversized key to the city

in to je vse, kar potrebujem, ker če ga dobim, bom lahko odklenil zrak.

and that is all I need, 'cause if I get that, I can unlock the air.

I'll listen for what's missing, and I'll put it there.

Poslušal bom, kaj manjka, in tisto dodal.

Thank you, TED.

Hvala, TED.

(Applause)

(aplavz)

Chris Anderson: Wow.

Chris Anderson: Uau.

(Applause)

(aplavz)

Uau.

(aplavz)

Wow.

(Applause)