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I've finished my Dragon Age elvish/elven/elvhen/el'vhen dictionary. And 99% of it is posted. I just need to clean up the primer and post that.
I have a linguistics minor and broke el'vhen down into its component parts. It started as just a list for me, but took on a life of its own.
Anyway. Hopefully, this will give us more words and tools to work with.
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pages 128-132 :))
we're almost at the end of this book :( it'll take me less than a week? i will be finishing this next week
then it's officially summer vacation :D
bungou stray dogs characters do not belong to me
please don't use my translation without permission
The day Tobias the Fox learns that the puns and the slang of Undertale have already lost their meaning or their humor because it's been a DECADE since his game releases, and that they'll get more and more outdated as time passes because languages EVOLVE and culture EVOLVES; and they ADAPT to society and its speakers, his brain will explode.
Outside of academic language and linguistic rules, there is not such thing as "perfect language" and "perfect idioms". Even those rules and vocabulary have to change over the years because, again, LANGUAGES EVOLVE! They CHANGE! And that's happened since language as a concept has been invented!
Tobias the Fox doesn't translate his videogames to other languages except japanese (and that's because he wants his game to sell on Nintendo hardware) because of wanting a "perfect translation" or because "it's too much text that could lose it's meaning," it's because he's either lazy, greedy or has some form of internalized bigotry that he doesn't want to acknowledge or introspect on.
A person from Chile, from Italy, from Germany, from South Africa, from Morocco, from China... should be able to play the game without having to rely on fantranslations or with learning another language that in many cases differs so much from their native one.
Maybe this is controversial to say on the "pissing on the poor" and "usamerica is the only country on earth" website. But as a translator and localizer I find this situation and many more like this one pathetic and incompetent. It's 2026, if adaptability controls are being normalized in videogames, localizing them should be as well.
How to and not to translate English into Latin:
Bad: ille celer fuscus vulpes saltus super ille ignavus canes
That fast brown man having been covered as a fox, that lazy man above dogs.
Better: Vulpes fusca celer trans canes segnes salit
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs.
The moral of the story is: check your cases and don't be too lazy about word order because despite what teachers tell you it does matter!
WoW Theory Translations - Part 3: Thalassian
Al diel shala (Means "Safe ship sailing") -From Old English hāl (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whole#Etymology). Means Safe. -From Proto-Germanic keulaz (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/keulaz#Noun). Means Ship. -From English Sail and Old Norse -an (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-an#Etymology_1_6). Means Sailing.
Anar alah belore (From Anar'alah belore. Means "By Light Sun's") -From Proto-Germanic Ga- (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic/ga-#Prefix) and English Near. Means With-near/By. -From Proto-Germanic Ga- and Middle English Lawhe (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lowe#Alternative_forms). Means With-blaze/Light. -From Old English bǣl (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/b%C3%A6l#Noun) and English Ore and Proto-Germanic -į̄ (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-%C4%AF%CC%84#Noun). Means The Quality of Flame-ore/Sun.
Shindu fal lah na (From Shindu fallah na. Means "(There) Are Enemies breaking near") -From Old English Sindon (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sindon#Verb). Means Are. -From Proto-Germanic Faluz (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/faluz#Adjective) and Proto-Germanic -az (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-az#Etymology_2). Means Evil-doer/Enemy. -From Old English flōh (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/floh#Noun) and Proto-Germanic *-ō (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-%C5%8D#Suffix). Means Fragmenting/Breaking. -From Old English nēa (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neah#Alternative_forms). Means Near.
Sin'dorei (Means "Blood-children") -From Old English Sinu (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sinu#Noun_5) and Proto-Germanic -az (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-az#Suffix_4). Means Girt by Sinew/Blood. -From Proto-Germanic Kaurijan (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kaurijan%C4%85#Verb) and Gothic -ei (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%F0%90%8C%B4%F0%90%8C%B9#Suffix). Means The Quality of Something Swept Out/Child.
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Okay someone please tell me who knows: *what* personal pronouns were the characters using in the Japanese translation of Animorphs? I have to know! We settled on, if we had to guess:
Visser Three: Absolutely using ore-sama when he's showboating, most likely ore to his own men, and most likely jibun to the Council of Thirteen if the plot ever got that far Jake: Most likely using boku; He's thirteen when the plot starts Rachel: Either using atashi or atai depending on context Cassie: Most likely watashi, actually
Marco: Depends heavily on context, most likely switching between ore and boku Visser One: 100 percent using atashi Tobias: Probably mostly boku, but watashi is also likely, since he's a little skittish, if not exactly polite Elfangor: Probably watashi when he meets the kids
Guesses are based on this helpful guide: https://legendsoflocalization.com/articles/personal-pronouns-in-japanese/ But it's just a guess. Does anyone know?!
anyone on tumblr speak Russian and willing to tell me what I’m singing in the musical I’m in? The line, phonetically in the script, is
“Vsego horoshego na pososhok poekhali” .
that’s it thank you!
