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#Post#: 2175--------------------------------------------------
Re: No. 6 translations
DIR By: Yuneyn
Date: December 18, 2014, 7:55 am
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Asdfghjkl don't even get me started on the French
translation.......
...Ok, I'll go back on those wretched Amazon pages where I saw
those awful summaries. Damn.
- Shion = Aster >:(
- Nezumi = "le Rat" >:( (like, seriously, why? It's exactly as
if he was called "the Rat" in English, just plain STUPID)
- Inukashi = Loueur-de-chiens....
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Brb, I need to kill myself very quickly.
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Ok no, BUT STILL. "Loueur de chiens"... ("Dog renter" I guess)
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE MY EYES ARE IN PAIN. (And not only
because of my trip to the eye doctor- haha- bad translations
imply bad puns from me, sorry)
I'm not saying it would have been easy to come up with something
like "Dogkeeper" though, it's not like French can stick words
together to make new ones, it's a very stupid language. Maybe
something like "Garde-chiens" (...Dogkeeper, actually), but
there's no way to make it in one word. So really, they should
have stuck with Inukashi and put a footnote to explain, because
the actual translation looks super ridiculous.
I can't tell about the gender they decided to use for Inukashi
though, but I suspect it would be super hard to keep Inukashi
genderless in French... we only have masculine and feminine
so...
Ok so that's all the amazon summaries would give me (they
stopped at Volume 5, not enough sales, and I'm not about to help
them continue selling this horrible thing)
Anyway, in the interest of science, I also subjected myself to a
French fanfiction in order to find more information. I searched
for one using "Aster" instead of Shion so that I'd know the
person was using the Novel translation as a basis...
- Eve = Yves ; no comment as you've already talked about it,
let's just all have a minute of silence for this horror. (Yves
Rocher, haha, I also thought of that... LET'S HAVE NEZUMI SELL
COSMETICS IN HIS NAME)
- The fic author uses "Lost Town" in English, but then "Bloc
Ouest" instead of "West Block" so I have to wonder if the
translators just put names and places in a hat and picked the
ones that were going to be translated.
- Again, the author says "il était un VC, un criminel
recherché", I'm sorry but "VC" aren't the initials for "criminel
recherché", so WHAT THE HELL.
(I'm not really nitpicking, I hate reading fics in my own
language and my eyes hurt like hell so I'm randomly stopping on
some sentences- I could have waited until my eyes didn't hurt,
but I started thinking of the French translation and got angry)
Actually a fan started the translation after the 6th volume on
ff.net, based on the ones from 9th avenue, and that person is
keeping the original names so it's much less painful to the
eyes. Ah well.
So here you have it people, the horrendous French translation of
the No.6 novel. I'm just hoping the massacre will stop here.
(I apologise if my writing is weird, I had this eye exam this
morning and my pupils are still super dilated, and also my eyes
are still irritated from that big lens they put on it, so I
can't see very well)
#Post#: 2177--------------------------------------------------
Re: No. 6 translations
DIR By: Ahiku
Date: December 18, 2014, 8:08 am
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[member=1]Yuneyn[/member]
Oh no, get well soon o.o *puts eye medicine in your eyes*
[member=16]Vox[/member]
Ah, I didn't tell you to get well soon in my last post, so I'll
do it now. Please get well soon. *puts human medicine in your
mouth*
*strokes Yuneyn's and Vox's heads* (._.)
...
[member=1]Yuneyn[/member]
OMG... this is really horrible. XD And I get the feeling I'll
get a knot in my tongue when I try to say "loueur de chiens" I
mean hello, it's some kind of name... x_X Try to yell it when
you're in danger. XD "Au secours! LOEEUGZDUER DE CHIENS,
aidez-moi s’il vous plaît! Merci beaucoup."
(But hey, Yves is at least a French name... XDD So I can
understand it a bit when they use it for their weird French
version... but not in the German one. X'D)
--- Quote ---
> (Yves Rocher, haha, I also thought of that... LET'S HAVE
NEZUMI SELL COSMETICS IN HIS NAME)
--- End Quote ---
Ah, yes!!! XD Also thought that. I just messaged Lawl that
selling beauty products is Nezumi's secret second job. He's
walking from door to door... and just like: "Bonjour monsieur...
my name is Yves...and this is my product line... Beautiful with
me - Yves Rocher! You want to be as beautiful as me? Buy this
lipstick. 100% made from melted butter and the blood of our
enemies. [I slit my boyfriend so you better buy you ugly old
hag!])
#Post#: 2180--------------------------------------------------
Re: No. 6 translations
DIR By: lawlya
Date: December 18, 2014, 9:07 am
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Okay, you two ... THIS is something that should be published xD
A No.6 parodie based on several translations x'D God, this is
fucking awesome lol
I don't have as much problems pronouncing the name but ...
you're right, it's a bit long to shout - you'll be dead before
you're finished ^^"
#Post#: 2181--------------------------------------------------
Re: No. 6 translations
DIR By: Vox
Date: December 18, 2014, 10:00 am
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oh my gog please can we write a parody
#Post#: 2188--------------------------------------------------
Re: No. 6 translations
DIR By: Ahiku
Date: December 19, 2014, 3:12 pm
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Yeah, why not. XD We could do this for our next No. 6 day. o.o
#Post#: 2191--------------------------------------------------
Re: No. 6 translations
DIR By: Enokizu
Date: December 19, 2014, 10:41 pm
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Eve as "Yves"? Yikes! That's like my late grandfather's name!
ヽ(￣д￣;)ノ and Shion as "Aster"
? What the hell is up with that. Terrible ugh. They are NAMES
god damn it is it really that hard to keep them as they are? I'm
glad I bought the English translation instead of the French one,
although it's not perfect either. To be honest even though I'm a
french speaker, I prefer to read English translations, because
the French translations are usually made in France and well...
it's not the same kind of french as over here in Canada, so I
can't really get into the story. All these expressions from
France are off-putting for me. Especially insults, also "mec"
and "nana" for boy and girl oh my god it's natural in France I
guess but over here it just sounds so silly and not serious at
all. (✖╭╮✖)
#Post#: 2461--------------------------------------------------
Re: No. 6 translations
DIR By: Ahiku
Date: January 5, 2015, 3:00 pm
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Ah, Lawl and I got answers from Egmont. ^^° They said that the
names "Yves" and "Eve" sound similar in the Japanese language,
and that they want to explain it in the next volume. They said
it would have been too confusing to give Nezumi a female name,
because "Eve" is not exactly "Eva" The German version of "Adam
and Eve" is "Adam und Eva" .... Of course we're all too stupid
to understand that. X'D Then just call him Eva. It's still
better than Yves. And he's still wearing a wig and a dress...
that's absolutely not confusing then, eh? X'D It's not just the
"Adam and Eve" mini doujin scene. He's a drag artist, damn it!
>_<
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Re: No. 6 translations
DIR By: listenforthelove
Date: January 5, 2015, 3:34 pm
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@Ahiku: but... they... kept things like Lost Town, right? Which
is also English? I mean, it's Eva in Dutch too for the Biblical
Eve, but I'm quite sure the slightly older audience (like the
target audience of No. 6...) got the joke with, say, EVE in
Wall-E. It's becoming a trend here now to use English names for
Dutch kids anyway... globalization and all... maybe that's just
Dutch but yeah. Very curious to their explanation in the next
volume, that's for sure XD; It's way harder to explain why he'd
use a generally male name when he presents as female than it is
to explain 'Eve is English'. Especially since they had no
problem keeping Japanese names for Nezumi and Inukashi, so they
have no objections to foreign nicknames that probably need
footnotes, apparently?
#Post#: 2463--------------------------------------------------
Re: No. 6 translations
DIR By: Ahiku
Date: January 5, 2015, 3:56 pm
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--- Quote ---
> It's becoming a trend here now to use English names for Dutch
kids anyway
--- End Quote ---
Yeah, here too... ^^° You can be glad when it's just English.
X'D People tend to have very weird names... that's something I
have to witness each day at work. Sometimes I really thought
they are kidding me and use some kind of phantasy names.
And yes, Lost Town and Violence Chip are still in English. And
most people should now that Eve = Eva. Especially when you give
it a little footnote. I don't understand why they think it's
confusing. (Do you know Tokyo Godfathers? They also didn't
change "Hana's" name. He was a drag artist before he ended up
homeless, and he's gay. And I bet in the German version, most
people think his name is "Hannah", since they never note it
down. That's also no problem. X'D But Nezumi is apparently not
allowed to have a girl's name.>,<)
Oh yeah, I'm also very curious to their explanation.
#Post#: 2464--------------------------------------------------
Re: No. 6 translations
DIR By: lawlya
Date: January 5, 2015, 5:00 pm
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That's gonna be a long one ... "The Kanji can be read as both
Yves and Eve. Shion is referring to Adam and Eve which is Adam
and Eva." Great ... Would have been too much of explanation to
do to call him Eve and make a little footnote = English Eva xD
Ah, isn't Germany great ^^"
Warum einfach, wenn's auch kompliziert geht ...
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