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Re: Translations
« Reply #125 on: December 07, 2014, 07:23:00 pm »
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Is there something specific a german-speaker owning every Dominion card and seeking ways to spend time that would better be spent studying can do to help?
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Re: Translations
« Reply #126 on: December 07, 2014, 10:25:45 pm »
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Is there something specific a german-speaker owning every Dominion card and seeking ways to spend time that would better be spent studying can do to help?

Go through the card articles and corroborate any literal translations I made?
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Re: Translations
« Reply #127 on: December 08, 2014, 12:04:58 am »
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Here's another language enthusiast. I would like to throw in my five cents.

Most of you probably already know that "Hinterlands" is a loanword from German. The German name of the set has been acurately translated to "Hinterland" which is singular. I find it curious that in English the plural of the word is used while in German "Hinterland" doesn't actually have a plural.
Another curiosity: starting with Hinterlands, the sets have all been plural. Prior to that, the English titles were all singular.

Hinterlands
Dark Ages
Guilds
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Re: Translations
« Reply #128 on: December 08, 2014, 12:41:57 am »
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It's official.  The next Dominion expansion name will be plural.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #129 on: December 08, 2014, 01:59:45 am »
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It's official.  The next Dominion expansion name will be plural.
Dominion: Gunpowders.
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« Reply #130 on: December 08, 2014, 08:00:42 am »
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OT: Tinkering with German rules for games played with the Decktet I found that English suits are plural (clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds) while most German suits are singular (Kreuz, Pik, Herz, Karo, but Schippen and Schellen).
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Re: Translations
« Reply #131 on: December 08, 2014, 08:06:40 am »
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Here's another language enthusiast. I would like to throw in my five cents.

Most of you probably already know that "Hinterlands" is a loanword from German. The German name of the set has been acurately translated to "Hinterland" which is singular. I find it curious that in English the plural of the word is used while in German "Hinterland" doesn't actually have a plural.
Another curiosity: starting with Hinterlands, the sets have all been plural. Prior to that, the English titles were all singular.

Hinterlands
Dark Ages
Guilds

Well Dark Ages doesn't have a singular in English, it's a time period, which is always pluralised (for some reason).
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Re: Translations
« Reply #132 on: December 08, 2014, 08:28:54 am »
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Is there something specific a german-speaker owning every Dominion card and seeking ways to spend time that would better be spent studying can do to help?

Go through the card articles and corroborate any literal translations I made?

Sure. Are we talking just the card names? I don't think i have seen anything else.
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« Reply #133 on: December 08, 2014, 08:47:43 am »
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Hinterlands
Dark Ages
Guilds

Well Dark Ages doesn't have a singular in English, it's a time period, which is always pluralised (for some reason).

Maybe it was so dark that we can't see how many of them there were? As opposed to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Age, the Age of Consent etc.
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« Reply #134 on: December 08, 2014, 09:18:03 am »
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Re: Translations
« Reply #135 on: December 08, 2014, 11:43:28 am »
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Is there something specific a german-speaker owning every Dominion card and seeking ways to spend time that would better be spent studying can do to help?

Go through the card articles and corroborate any literal translations I made?

Sure. Are we talking just the card names? I don't think i have seen anything else.

That is correct.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #136 on: December 24, 2014, 02:52:45 pm »
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So adding translations to the articles has been going pretty well!  However, I think I've reached the extent of what Google can scrounge up for me in finding official card names.  It's time to call in some native speakers.  Here's what we still need:

Dutch: Seaside, Prosperity, Cornucopia, Dark Ages, Promo
Italian: Pretty much everything (working on this myself, but the cardlist I found is just a list, and does not have the official cards, so if I put up a wrong translation, and you have the set in Italian, please fix it!)
Spanish: A couple promo cards
Finnish: Everything (Awaclus?  Eevee?  Think I saw someone else Finning around)
Swedish: Everything
Chinese: Everything (please include transliterations)
Greek: Everything
Hungarian: Everything
Japanese: Everything (please include transliterations)
Korean: Everything (please include transliterations)
Norwegian: Everything
Polish: Everything
Portuguese: Everything
Romanian: Everything

Obviously, not all sets have been released in every language (Russian has only been released in Base and Intrigue), so just do as much as you can.  And please add a literal translation if it's not a direct translation.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #137 on: December 25, 2014, 03:05:21 pm »
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Spanish: A couple promo cards

Only Alijo (Stash) and Pueblo Amurallado (Walled Village) have been released :(
The other would be something like Enviado (Envoy), Mercado Negro (Black Market), Gobernador (Governor) and Príncipe (Prince).
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Re: Translations
« Reply #138 on: December 25, 2014, 11:04:32 pm »
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I've done Italian through Hinterlands, and Polish in Base and Intrigue. It's rather weird - it seems Polish has only been translated for Base, Intrigue and Cornucopia - what about all the other expansions in between?
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Re: Translations
« Reply #139 on: December 29, 2014, 10:19:22 am »
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I am currently working on whole-card translations in Brazilian Portuguese. I watched some Youtube videos of Brazilians playing Dominion with English cards so I assume there is no official Portuguese translation. I'm doing this for fun and to practice my written Portuguese.

I can add Portuguese card titles to the Wiki and try to be as literal as possible, although sometimes translations for different cards can overlap. I those cases, I would try and comply with the Spanish translations (which are not always literal or accurate). Should I go ahead and do that?
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« Reply #140 on: December 29, 2014, 01:00:33 pm »
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I am currently working on whole-card translations in Brazilian Portuguese. I watched some Youtube videos of Brazilians playing Dominion with English cards so I assume there is no official Portuguese translation. I'm doing this for fun and to practice my written Portuguese.

I can add Portuguese card titles to the Wiki and try to be as literal as possible, although sometimes translations for different cards can overlap. I those cases, I would try and comply with the Spanish translations (which are not always literal or accurate). Should I go ahead and do that?

It seems there has already been a Portuguese translation by Runadrake, but it also seems that Runadrake has gone out of business or something, because the link to their website goes to some shitty blog.  There is also apparently a Brazilian Portuguese edition in the works.  I'd prefer official over unofficial translations on the wiki, please.

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http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameversion/76342/portuguese-edition

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameversion/252327/brazilian-edition
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Re: Translations
« Reply #141 on: December 29, 2014, 05:44:09 pm »
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Well, I can't seem to find any original Portuguese translations on the internet so you have to rely on some Portuguese or Brazilian person who owns a physical copy of the game. Anyway, I sincerely doubt they translated much more than Base and Intrigue.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #142 on: December 29, 2014, 07:18:41 pm »
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Well, shoot me a PM with what you've got translated for base.  If it looks good, I'll give you a go ahead to put it up there.
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« Reply #143 on: December 30, 2014, 03:57:29 am »
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Wow, I never knew Portuguese versions existed!

Co0kieL0rd, let me know if you want help from a native speaker with your pt-br translations. (Btw, in this BGG image gallery we can see some cards from the pt-pt base set.)
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« Reply #144 on: December 30, 2014, 11:02:28 am »
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Well, shoot me a PM with what you've got translated for base.  If it looks good, I'll give you a go ahead to put it up there.
I'll check with pedroluchini first ;) I bet my stylistic choices in the card texts are not always the best.

Wow, I never knew Portuguese versions existed!

Co0kieL0rd, let me know if you want help from a native speaker with your pt-br translations. (Btw, in this BGG image gallery we can see some cards from the pt-pt base set.)

I would appreciate your help! Are you Portuguese or Brazilian? Would you like to look at the whole card translations or just the card names?
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« Reply #145 on: December 30, 2014, 11:51:51 am »
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I am Brazilian. You can send me the whole card text, if you want. :)

P.S.: Though I kind of agree with werothegreat that maybe the Wiki (and this thread) is not the best place to discuss fan translations.
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« Reply #146 on: January 01, 2015, 11:47:39 am »
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I am Brazilian. You can send me the whole card text, if you want. :)

P.S.: Though I kind of agree with werothegreat that maybe the Wiki (and this thread) is not the best place to discuss fan translations.

Then where would be a better place?
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« Reply #147 on: January 01, 2015, 12:31:12 pm »
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I am Brazilian. You can send me the whole card text, if you want. :)

P.S.: Though I kind of agree with werothegreat that maybe the Wiki (and this thread) is not the best place to discuss fan translations.

Then where would be a better place?

This forum?
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« Reply #148 on: January 01, 2015, 06:15:34 pm »
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@Co0kieL0rd: Yeah, you could start a new thread or just PM me. I enjoy looking at translations -- Dominion card names are tricky words whose meaning can be hard to capture in other languages, and I'm genuinely interested in seeing how others handle the problem.



By the way, I've been looking through the translated card names out of curiosity and I see some of them include a comment, e.g. for Peddler:

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Italian: Ambulante (lit. wanderer)

Now, I also speak Italian and that doesn't sound right. It's true that ambulante means wanderer, but in this context what's meant is probably venditore ambulante. A literal translation back to English would be wandering vendor, i.e. a hawker or... a peddler. In the end, the Italian card name is pretty accurate, though it goes through a few etymological loops.

I dunno, is there an interest in this sort of short analysis (kind of like Bulbapedia does for Pokémon names)?
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« Reply #149 on: January 04, 2015, 10:51:52 am »
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By the way, I've been looking through the translated card names out of curiosity and I see some of them include a comment, e.g. for Peddler:

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Italian: Ambulante (lit. wanderer)

Now, I also speak Italian and that doesn't sound right. It's true that ambulante means wanderer, but in this context what's meant is probably venditore ambulante. A literal translation back to English would be wandering vendor, i.e. a hawker or... a peddler. In the end, the Italian card name is pretty accurate, though it goes through a few etymological loops.

I dunno, is there an interest in this sort of short analysis (kind of like Bulbapedia does for Pokémon names)?

I'm curious to see what native speakers think of the translations of card names into their languages. As for Peddler, I would have translated it with Ambulante in Portugues as well.

Another example: Do you think of "Forge" as a verb or a noun? Remodel, Expand, Rebuild are examples of verbs as card names, but what about Forge? Is it intended to mean something similar to "fake"/"imitate" or rather "Furnace"? If you look at the translations on the wiki, the publishers obviously had differing opinions about that. I wanted to translate Forge into Portugues with "Imitação" rather than "Forja" like the Spanish translation. (I translated Smithy with Forja, and Ironworks with Ferraria.) What do you think about that?

EDIT: Oops sorry, I should have started a new thread, as you said. But I'm not sure how to introduce the topic, yet.
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