Game over! Winner: blonfu with 20 chars.
Welcome to a new edition of the game! If this is your first time, there's some info for beginners at the end of this post.
Long-time players know I've got a thing for music. Here's a song that you might've heard once or twice:
I have a blue house with a blue window
Blue is the color of all that I wear
Blue are the streets and all the trees are too
I have a girlfriend and she is so blue
Blue are the people here that walk around
Blue like my Corvette, it's in and outside
Blue are the words I say and what I think
Blue are the feelings that live inside meI'm blue da ba dee da ba daa
Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa
Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa(362 characters)
Yes, it is Blue (Da Ba Dee) by Eiffel 65.
There are differing opinions about the meaning of this song. Some would say that it tells us about a funny world where everything is colored blue, whereas others argue that it is a song about depression and 'blue' refers to feeling down. Answers can be based on any of those interpretations (or a mix of both) as long as they are coherent.
The goal is to translate the given text to Spanish, using as few letters as possible, while keeping all the original text's meaning and concepts more or less intact.
My own, non-golfed translation:
Yo tengo una casa azul con una ventana azul. Azul es el color de todo lo que llevo puesto. Azules son las calles y todos los árboles son azules también. Tengo una novia y es super azul. Azul es la gente que camina por aquí alrededor, azul como mi Corvette lo es por dentro y por fuera. Azules son las palabras que digo y lo que pienso. Azules son los sentimientos que viven dentro de mí.
Soy azul, da bu di da bu dai, da bu di da bu dai, da bu di da bu dai, da bu di da bu dai, da bu di da bu dai, da bu di da bu dai, da bu di da bu dai.
(402 characters)
Note: "rhyme rules" do not apply to this edition.
- Rules: Translation-golf rules
- Letter counter: jsfiddle
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Have fun!