[0.81] Aran/Neo Tokyo

Does this explain it enough for you, or do I have to completely spell it out for you nit-wits?



TOUKYOU AND TOKYO are correct in BOTH LANGUAGES. The ONLY reason why the English language shortened it to Tokyo was because they're too pineappleing lazy to type the second 'o' or 'u.'

The word is written out "T-O-U-K-Y-O-U" in Japanese, which I SPEAK and TYPE every day. Not only has it become second-nature for me to type it that way, but it has become a preference, instead of having to type it as 'Tōkyō,' which is actually the only correct way to write it in 'English,' but since the world is too lazy for that, the nit-wits of the world changed the name of the capital of a country...

If you want to be peachy about me typing it as 'Toukyou,' I'm going to peach at you for not typing it as 'Tōkyō.'



As for the names, they're REAL German words. Not only is MSEA destroying the translation, but they're also destroying another European language. Tell me how you get...

Auf Haven out of 'Aufuhe-ben'

Nibergen out of 'Ni-berungu'

Vergamot out of 'Berugamotto'

ProtoRoad out of 'purototaipu ro-do'


etc...?


Note to Fiel : Sorry... I couldn't help myself on this one.



Edit : Here's the JP names vs. the MSEA names:

JMS Name : アフターロード (afuta-ro-do) | MSEA name : AfterRoad | Correct name : AfterLord
JMS Name : オーバーロード(o-ba-ro-do) | MSEA name : OverLoad | Correct name : Over Lord
JMS Name : プロトタイプロード(purototaipu ro-do) | MSEA name : ProtoRoad | Correct name : Prototype Lord
JMS Name : イルヴァーター (iruva-ta-) | MSEA name : Eruwater | Correct name : Iruvata
JMS Name : ベルガモット (berugamotto) | MSEA name : Vergamot | Correct name : Bergamot (name of a fruit)
JMS Name : ニーベルング (ni-berungu) | MSEA name : Nibergen | Correct name : Nibelung (real German word)
JMS Name : アウフヘーベン (aufuhe-ben) | MSEA name : Auf Haven | Correct name : Aufheben (real German word)


That's as far as I'm going to go... The NPC names are just horrible....


Do you see the difference now?

Thank you for explaining to us the differences, but its not really hard to figure out that MSEA translators arent Germans and so are 99.9%< of the MSEA population. What may make a big difference to you may just be an insignificant difference to us. To me its just something like Daniel (some christian name? i dunno) or Danial (muslim name).

Hence the conclusion is. MSEA people should not be bothered.

Just a slight curiosity, how do you translate from the figure-characters to alphabet-characters? I've always been under the impression that they 'translate' through a medium which is the 'sound' they both give.

E.g: ア gives the sound [a], and the alphabet letter a gives the sound [a], therefore they are equivalent.

Is this not the case?

Same question for Chinese if anyone here knows. (just so that it isn't TOO off-topic)

Nope, even though some of the roots of Japanese words( I think its kanji) are from chinese, they dont work the same way. ( I am not sure about their meanings though...)

（一） means number one and （意） means to have a meaning. though they are totally different words, the have the same pronounciation(or the same sound?) (Yi).