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ITT : Shitty translation

>> No.2085864

in b4 mangagamer

>> No.2085867
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.....you lost me

>> No.2085871

Evver17...not so good.

>> No.2085872

I don't like Fate, but it didn't deserve the half-assed fan localization that Mirror Moon gave it.

>> No.2085874

I'm not sure whether to blame the translators or Nasu more for all the times I thought "what" when playing F/SN

>> No.2085879

>>2085867
Kotomine, you are the only character that redeems FSN.

>> No.2085885

>>2085874
Its always easiest to just blame Nasu. Mollusks.

>> No.2085897
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>>2085867

>They are crazy,continuing their deeds...
>They are not fanatics, nor obstinate ,nor crazy

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

>> No.2085903

>>2085860
Am I missing something here?

>> No.2085910

>>2085867

I gave the game the benefit of the doubt on that one and assumed Kotomine was just being an asshole there, trying to confuse me.

>> No.2085914

>>2085903

"but I my laughter"

>> No.2085915

>>2085903
You're missing the "I my" part. QCers failed.

>> No.2085928
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2085928

Just MM.

>> No.2085936

>>2085928
Too bad we couldn't get SEUNG PARK to translate this.

>> No.2085940

>>2085914
>>2085915
Wow I read it a few times and still missed that. Usually I'm bugged by even small errors.

Still, fan translations are overall much better than commercial VN translations, sadly enough. I'm playing Ever17 and the number of errors for a professional translation is fucking embarrassing.

>> No.2085946

>>2085940
Naturally, I knows the translator and editor

>> No.2085952

>>2085940
Yeah, it's kind of funny. I guess having no deadline and no budget problems is one of the advantages of fan translations. If they want, they can spend as much time as they like polishing up their work.

>> No.2085966

I'm a bit new to Fate/Stay Night, what can you tell me that I havn't heard before?

This games about fuckin King Arthur in the ass isn't it?
Who're these other tarts you're always posting about?

>> No.2085973

>>2085966
Don't worry about the others, they're all useless anyways.

>> No.2085974

>>2085966

That's just the first part out of three, but yeah, that's what that part is about more or less

>> No.2085975

>>2085928
woah I never even knew another group translated the game, if the other groups translation is so much better.. why do people use MM?

>> No.2085982

>>2085975
they release there own installers!

GOOD INSTALLERS!
hahahahahahaha good installers good one me

>> No.2085989

>>2085975
Because the other group didn't finish and had no plans to.

>> No.2086000

>>2085975
insani only translated part of it.

Honestly of the two translations in that pic I prefer Mirror Moon's.

>> No.2086010

One thing I found really annoying in Heaven's Feel was all the similes to "A puppet with its strings cut".

"Sakura fell to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut."

"I collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut."

"She felt like a puppet with its strings cut."

Fuck Nasu, we get it, Sakura's a puppet, use another metaphor.

>> No.2086020

>>2085928
I can't tell which one is more accurate, but MM's one seems clearer.

>> No.2086014
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>> No.2086037

>>2086010

That was a decent simile at first, but it did get irritating.

The worst one I remember (though I'm sure there were more than a few of them) was when Shirou compared Lancer or Archer or whoever to old yogurt.

>> No.2086042

>>2086020
Given Seung Park's fanatical advocation of liberal translation, I'd assume that Mirror Moon's is more accurate.

>> No.2086056

Hey fags, be grateful to MM for translating this, there's far worse localizations out there, including COMMERCIAL localizations.
I think they did well for such a large game, and it would be uncomparably superior to what you would get from reading shitty chinese to english translations or using ATLAS to play the game.
Their work is not without faults, but they can always release a new bugfix version to the patch once they find enough errors in it, and if peopel keep reporting them.

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>>2086037
I didn't get this analogy at all. Seriously how many people have seen a squirrel with sugar?

>> No.2086064

>>2086037
How would you say that compares to Iliad, i.e. similes/metaphors that compare people dying or getting badly injured to things that happen in nature?

>> No.2086084

>>2086061
If you coat a razor blade with sugary syrup (ie, honey), it'll keep licking it until it shreds its tongue and die.

>> No.2086085
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2086085

TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL

>> No.2086087

>>2085860
Shitty or not, at least you get what the characters are trying to say. MM had worked hard to deliver the patch all for no charge. So stop complaining.

>> No.2086102

>>2086064

If I recall correctly, the old yogurt simile was referring to how whoever it was who was fighting wasn't as good as Saber at fighting, hence he was "like old yogurt" or something. I don't remember anything like that in the Iliad. But then it's been a while since I read it.

>> No.2086096

>>2086061

I just thought it was a Japanese term, that could only be understood in the cultural context.

Really, this nitpicking about translation is retarded. The only thing that really matters to me is that it's comprehensible. In my run through the game I never noticed the "I my", nor the logical error Kotomine, but I understood what they were trying to say. Only when you completely remove the image from context and examine every word in the sentence do you find errors like these, and none of them are catastrophic enough to make the sentence impossible to understand.

>> No.2086100

>>2086087
sup Message

>> No.2086536

>>2086056

Sorry son but I don't think MM will ever release another FSN patch .

>> No.2086572

>>ITT : Shitty editing
Fixed.

>> No.2086582

>>ITT : Shitty game
further fixing

>> No.2086625

>>2086010
Nasu has a broken nutty bitch fetish, I'm afraid.

It's terminal.

>> No.2086850

>>2085860
ITT: Better than nothing.

>>2086010
Try playing through all of f/sn, especially the first two routes, and count how many teeth are gritted.

>> No.2086856

>>2086085
sauce

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>> No.2086946

>>2086919
Tsugumi was the original grammar troll.

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>>2086912

>When are you from
>When
>from

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

>> No.2086958

Who wants to translate CROSS CHANNEL?

>> No.2086959

>>2086956

Well, the speaker could've been referring to what time period if they were talking to Lancer. But I don't remember that scene so I dunno.

>> No.2086966

>>2086912
>>2086956
What? It makes sense. She's asking what time period he's from. It's just never said in English because it makes no sense in the real world

>> No.2086991

>>2086958
I thought someone was already translating it.

>> No.2087003

>>2086991

But if you translate it, then I won't have to.

>> No.2087020

>>2087012
Then you'd expect.

>> No.2087012

...Most of these seems like things missed from the editing and the quality check/
It's not like you do not UNDERSTAND what they are saying in all of these cases.
Unless you mean the whole TRANSLATION effort, but let me tell you, it's harder to proofread that much text.

>> No.2087075

>>2087003
Are you saying someone here actually had the japanese knowledge to play through it?

>> No.2087078

>>2087003
Okay, sure I'll translate it.

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