The Gare and Elin Translate It Out: keikaku means plan

[Shane]

The Gare and Elin Translate It Out.

I expect the title to be changed accordingly.

And it did, and three more pages in the Hang-Out.

Surprising how much can happen in thirty minutes

[Gare]

Gare, I finished Deadly Premonition some time back. Holy shit Batman wat!? Best worst best game ever!

Told you so! And that thing with grandpa Zach leaving to investigate the zombie virus at the end ("people walking backwards") wasn't in the original, actually.

But yeah, it was one hell of a ride wasn't it. Edit: Do you have any favorite parts/twist?

[crusher]

And it's not like onii-chan can't be translated. Even if "brother" doesn't sound quite right (I mean, who addresses his brother as "brother" in this day and age?), you could just go with the character's first name. That's what I consistently do in my translations.

Oh it means brother. And you do translations? See what I know...

[Gare]

I want to start a translation group, but I don't know what keikaku means.

FEAR NOT, THE NEW HANGOUT TITLE HAS YOU COVERED

[Elin]

And it's not like onii-chan can't be translated. Even if "brother" doesn't sound quite right (I mean, who addresses his brother as "brother" in this day and age?), you could just go with the character's first name. That's what I consistently do in my translations.

People argue that it destroys the "Japaneseness" of the social interactions between the characters, but the Japaneseness is going to be destroyed the second you translate any of it into English. The only way to experience authentic Japanese dialogue between two characters is... uh... to learn Japanese. :'D Short of that, you're always going to be reading a translation full of linguistic compromise. I figure mixing in a little more of that compromise is a worthy sacrifice if it means a more readable translation.

Also, the hilarious moment when I heard one of my Japanese friends talking to her sister in English, and they both called each other by their first names. And when, when I asked my friend's little sister out of curiosity, she told me it would be "weird" to call her big sister "oneechan" while speaking English.

[Gare]

Oh it means brother. And you do translations? See what I know...

Yeah, I translate stuff from time to time. See link in my sig.

[Elin]

Glad to hear that! I never understood why people translate like that. How did your group have justify literal translations?

With extreme arrogance, basically. :'D They took the line that localisations were "butchering" the Japanese dialogue, that localisations were crap and full of mistranslations, etc... This despite the fact that I did translation checking for most of the other translators in the group, and their work was loaded with errors. I'm not even very into anime to begin with, so if it weren't as good for my Japanese as it was, I wouldn't have lasted nearly as long as a year and a half.

[crusher]

Told you so! And that thing with grandpa Zach leaving to investigate the zombie virus at the end ("people walking backwards") wasn't in the original, actually.

But yeah, it was one hell of a ride wasn't it.

Yeah seriously! George going all Blanka on York and everything past that was a big wtf! I totally knew Kaysen was a villain though!

I hope we'll see a sequel someday!

[Gare]

Also, the hilarious moment when I heard one of my Japanese friends talking to her sister in English, and they both called each other by their first names. And when, when I asked my friend's little sister out of curiosity, she told me it would be "weird" to call her big sister "oneechan" while speaking English.

Please record her saying that so I can upload it to Youtube and put it on my blog under "Vision Statement".

[Gare]

I totally knew Kaysen was a villain though!

You probably weren't expecting him to turn into elastic Dhalsim frog monster, though...

I'm hoping for a sequel as well. It must, however, keep the subpar character animations and the trademark creepy smile. And the coffee!

[Elin]

Please record her saying that so I can upload it to Youtube and put it on my blog under "Vision Statement".

It was so beautiful that I wanted to cry. ;__;

I do feel sometimes, though, that many of these fan translators can't have very many actual Japanese friends. Their ideas about how Japanese people talk to and interact with one another seem so warped. :'D

[crusher]

You probably weren't expecting him to turn into elastic Dhalsim frog monster, though...

I'm hoping for a sequel as well. It must, however, keep the subpar character animations and the trademark creepy smile. And the coffee!

Absolutely not! I still have a hard time grasping the story from that point onwards. Everything just turns so bizzare.

Creepy smile aside, York is a suave motherfucker! I liked the character quite a bit. The coffee drinking and constant smoking was pretty lulz!

[Gare]

It was so beautiful that I wanted to cry. ;__;

I do feel sometimes, though, that many of these fan translators can't have very many actual Japanese friends. Their ideas about how Japanese people talk to and interact with one another seem so warped. :'D

I don't have any Japanese friends.

[crusher]

Gotta run, talk to you later people!

[Elin]

I don't have any Japanese friends.

A tribute to your common sense compared to theirs.