Have you talked about Roger's last words yet? I feel like I get the gist of it from the multiple translations I've seen, but I'd love to see your take. Thanks!
I’ve already talked about them some here, but I can do a straight up translation, sure!
おれの財宝か? 欲しけりゃくれてやるぜ… 探してみろ。この世の全てをそこに置いてきた/ore no zaihou ka? hoshikerya kurete yaru ze… sagashite miro. kono yo no subete wo soko ni oite kita.
くれる/kureru can mean either ‘to give’ or ‘to let one have’- I know it’s usually translated as the latter, here. And 探す/sagasu means ‘to search/to look for,’ and the miru after it is an auxiliary verb that’s like ‘try/attempt to…’ and the way it’s conjugated makes the phrase “(try to) search for it” kind of a command, which is kinda kickass.
I already talked about kono yo no subete in the other post, but basically it means ‘everything in this world,’ and I’ve always found it a very interesting way of describing the One Piece. And then there’s the そこ/soko. It just means ‘there,’ but it’s a word you’d normally use when referring to a place that’s already been specified/that the user is already aware of- which checks out here, because I think everybody cottoned on pretty quick the One Piece was probably on Laugh Tale/at the end of the Grand Line.
“My treasure? If you want it, you can have it/I’ll give it to you… Search for it. I left everything (I have/in the world) there.”
