I wonder as I wander.

Japanese translation: さまよい迷う

13:44 Feb 23, 2007

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English term or phrase: I wonder as I wander.

Hello ! Thanks for anyone's suggestions !
It's just the title of a song...
I could do a literal translation of course but I was wondering if we could play in some way in Japanese too, with the similarity of "Wonder" and "Wander" in graphy ...

Frenchnative Japanese Translation KudoZ activity Questions: 32 (none open) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 58 France
Local time: 07:42

Japanese translation:さまよい迷う

Explanation:
ウロウロさまよいながら、グルグル思い巡らせ迷う。

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-02-23 15:16:44 GMT)
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さ迷う＆迷う　

Selected response from:

isoyo
Local time: 14:42

Grading comment

Many thanks ! On top of being faithful in meaning to the English version, さまようand 迷う have the similarity I was looking for ! However, I won't keep the proposed construction. but this is detail. So thank you so much.
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Summary of answers provided

3 +2

さまよい迷う

isoyo

心に戸惑い、道に惑う

humbird

あてもなく

alajaponaise

Answers

1 hr confidence:

i wonder as i wander. あてもなく

Explanation:
How about this?

alajaponaise
Local time: 07:42
Native speaker of: Japanese

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you for the suggestion.

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

i wonder as i wander.

さまよい迷う

isoyo
Local time: 14:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

16 hrs confidence:

i wonder as i wander. 心に戸惑い、道に惑う

Explanation:
This is a kind of question that I enjoy tossing around the idea as it challenges my literary sense.
Just a sake of clarification, let me add few explanations...

(心に）戸惑う wonder (with a bit of confusion)
(道に）惑う wander (but more to "get lost" ... literally as well as figuratively)

I learned that "wonder" and "wander" derived from same Old English "wundor" [M-W Dictionary].
While my answer is not a "pun" as that's what you might be looking, Japanese counterpart "惑う" expresses same stem idea with ramifications sucha as these.

HTH

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Note added at 16 hrs (2007-02-24 05:54:06 GMT)
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I love this song, espetially the lyric ....... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wonder_as_I_Wander

humbird
Native speaker of:

Japanese,

English
PRO pts in category: 20

Notes to answerer

Asker: Hi Susan, thank you for the creativity of your answer.

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