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Re: Translations
« Reply #100 on: December 03, 2014, 10:27:55 am »
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Fou (Madman): Man, but these French are literal!
I can just imagine the crazy guy wandering through the woods. Really, I pity le Fou.

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Escroc (Swindler): Just a fun word to say!
Is this related to the English word Escrow? Because now I'm worried that I'm asking Swindlers to hold onto my money. (And Google tells me that no, they're false cognates, although I can't find anything saying that they don't have the same origins.)

Had to upvote for "I pity le Fou," and I am disappointed in everyone that did not upvote.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #101 on: December 03, 2014, 10:39:38 am »
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I'm always a little annoyed that "Baker" is translated in the masculine (boulanger rather than boulangère) when the illustration clearly shows a woman.
In German, they'd already used Wahrsagerin (female) for Fortune Teller, so Soothsayer had to be called... Wahrsager.

They didn't have too, they did. There are some synonyms in german as well ("Hellseherin" for example)
As far as I am aware, there are actually different print runs featuring both genders for the Guilds card.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #102 on: December 03, 2014, 11:53:09 am »
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Fou (Madman): Man, but these French are literal!
I can just imagine the crazy guy wandering through the woods. Really, I pity le Fou.

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Escroc (Swindler): Just a fun word to say!
Is this related to the English word Escrow? Because now I'm worried that I'm asking Swindlers to hold onto my money. (And Google tells me that no, they're false cognates, although I can't find anything saying that they don't have the same origins.)

Had to upvote for "I pity le Fou," and I am disappointed in everyone that did not upvote.

I second this, as it was quite clever.  Didn't see it originally, am off to upvote now.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #103 on: December 03, 2014, 12:41:01 pm »
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I'm always a little annoyed that "Baker" is translated in the masculine (boulanger rather than boulangère) when the illustration clearly shows a woman.
In German, they'd already used Wahrsagerin (female) for Fortune Teller, so Soothsayer had to be called... Wahrsager.

They didn't have too, they did. There are some synonyms in german as well ("Hellseherin" for example)
As far as I am aware, there are actually different print runs featuring both genders for the Guilds card.

Then how do you differentiate Fortune Teller and Soothsayer in German?
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Re: Translations
« Reply #104 on: December 03, 2014, 12:42:59 pm »
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Oh an "touche-à-tout" for "Jack of All Trades" is a brilliant, brilliant translation, they did a great job there.

How would you re-translate "Fiers-a-bras"?  It seems to work both as "strongarm" and "braggarts".

The only context I know it from is "faire/jouer les fiers-à-bras" which basically means bragging, so I would go with "braggart" there. Not a big fan of that particular translation, I would have gone with "sbires" probably.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #105 on: December 03, 2014, 01:26:08 pm »
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Fou (Madman): Man, but these French are literal!
I can just imagine the crazy guy wandering through the woods. Really, I pity le Fou.

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Escroc (Swindler): Just a fun word to say!
Is this related to the English word Escrow? Because now I'm worried that I'm asking Swindlers to hold onto my money. (And Google tells me that no, they're false cognates, although I can't find anything saying that they don't have the same origins.)

Had to upvote for "I pity le Fou," and I am disappointed in everyone that did not upvote.

I second this, as it was quite clever.  Didn't see it originally, am off to upvote now.

Since the post was so long ago, the owed upvote has accrued interest.  You can go ahead and apply said interest to my post.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #106 on: December 03, 2014, 02:21:08 pm »
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Oh, and if the translation is idiomatic (e.g. Blutzoll for Ill-Gotten Gains), please also leave a note giving its literal translation, like this:

* German: Blutzoll (lit. blood tax)
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Re: Translations
« Reply #107 on: December 03, 2014, 03:29:24 pm »
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I've started adding Dutch translations to the Guilds cards, will add others soon.

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Re: Translations
« Reply #108 on: December 03, 2014, 03:57:52 pm »
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I've started adding Dutch translations to the Guilds cards, will add others soon.

Thanks!  But could you put them above French?  I'd like for the languages to be in alphabetical (in English) order.  :)
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Re: Translations
« Reply #109 on: December 03, 2014, 04:05:54 pm »
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Ah, yes, sure. Dutch is very important so should be first anyway  ;)

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Re: Translations
« Reply #110 on: December 03, 2014, 04:14:36 pm »
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Oh an "touche-à-tout" for "Jack of All Trades" is a brilliant, brilliant translation, they did a great job there.

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Re: Translations
« Reply #111 on: December 03, 2014, 04:16:54 pm »
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Also!  If there's a mistake in a translation of the card text, please report it in the same section, like so:

* Spanish: Mina.
** The Spanish card text lets you gain a Treasure costing exactly {{Cost|3}} more, instead of ''up to'' {{Cost|3}} more.

This will put the errata on a sub-bullet under the name.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #112 on: December 03, 2014, 04:48:44 pm »
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Hugovj - I put in a few Dutch translations for Alchemy, but I can't find them for Potion, Vineyard, University, or Possession.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #113 on: December 03, 2014, 05:12:28 pm »
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I can make them up from top of my head: Toverdrank, Wijngaard, Universiteit, Bezeten (?). I'll look them up.

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Re: Translations
« Reply #114 on: December 03, 2014, 05:20:35 pm »
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Is anyone interested in translating them into Klingon? I only have a basic knowledge of Klingon, so it would help me a lot.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #115 on: December 03, 2014, 05:23:45 pm »
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How about Sindarin?
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« Reply #116 on: December 03, 2014, 05:23:50 pm »
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So, I have trouble finding Vineyard. I'm really sure it should be Wijngaard, but I can't find an image or something to prove it (I don't own Alchemy myself)

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Re: Translations
« Reply #117 on: December 03, 2014, 05:28:31 pm »
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How about Sindarin?

I was thinking about Esperanto earlier.  But let's keep it to official translations for now. 

This is not me discouraging you from translating Dominion into Sindarin or Klingon - knock yourselves out, just don't put it on the wiki.  :)
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Re: Translations
« Reply #118 on: December 03, 2014, 07:41:46 pm »
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Sindarin is for the peasants (I mean come on, that's what Legolas speaks), Quenya is the way to go.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #119 on: December 04, 2014, 09:02:46 am »
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Someone just put in the Spanish translation for Trader (with an errata, even), but as far as I can tell, Hinterlands hasn't even been published in Spanish.  Anyone have any idea who that was?  Or if you're them, could you fill in the rest of Hinterlands?
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« Reply #120 on: December 04, 2014, 10:02:07 am »
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Someone just put in the Spanish translation for Trader (with an errata, even), but as far as I can tell, Hinterlands hasn't even been published in Spanish.  Anyone have any idea who that was?  Or if you're them, could you fill in the rest of Hinterlands?
That would be me. Hinterlands was released some time ago, and Dark Ages just a couple of months ago. I'll fill them this weekend ;)
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Re: Translations
« Reply #121 on: December 04, 2014, 10:20:37 am »
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Oh, and if the translation is idiomatic (e.g. Blutzoll for Ill-Gotten Gains), please also leave a note giving its literal translation, like this:

* German: Blutzoll (lit. blood tax)

Actually tax = Steuer, where Zoll = toll, a closer translation by the word's meaning would be "death toll" .

/edit: Oh, you have this in the OP ;D
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« Reply #122 on: December 04, 2014, 10:42:33 am »
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Oh, and if the translation is idiomatic (e.g. Blutzoll for Ill-Gotten Gains), please also leave a note giving its literal translation, like this:

* German: Blutzoll (lit. blood tax)

Actually tax = Steuer, where Zoll = toll, a closer translation by the word's meaning would be "death toll" .

/edit: Oh, you have this in the OP ;D

"Blood tax" sounds cooler.  :P
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Re: Translations
« Reply #123 on: December 07, 2014, 06:45:05 pm »
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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.
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Re: Translations
« Reply #124 on: December 07, 2014, 06:49:46 pm »
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FWIW, it's also singular in French (arrière-pays).

2 to 1, English, you lose.

What, there are other languages ?
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