Anyone okay at japanese willing to lend a hand?

[raocow]

Yo!

Basically, I got a silly idea for the next atxs book, and me and AoD where discussing it, and figured that if we were going to go through with it, might as well go all out.

Basically, I'd like it if someone would offer their help to translate a sentence, a couple of names, and a whole bunch of verbs from english to japanese. At first I planned to just use google translate, but it'd be a lot neater if everything was more... well, 'true', for lack of a better word.

Either respond here or send me a pm, that'd be groovy!

Thanks in advance, yo!

[LaularuKyrumo]

Horry shit, I can help!

I'm taking year 3 high school japanese, but I'm so far ahead of the curve I should be in the elite 4th year class. I might be able to help, and have resources for things I don't know right off the bat.

[Dan]

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[raocow]

har har

really though, I figure, for the book, if we're going to make fun of something, might as well go all out

[Argumentable]

There was a time when all of IRC was just typing japanese and I was sitting there looking angrily at my computer screen. Too bad those people never check the forums...!

Or will they???

[O-Card]

we're just pretending

[Cobalt]

I don't speak japanese but I have an IME pad and WWWJDIC
Also if this is for atxs I think semi-bad japanese translation would be funny too
look here are some kanji 火水金木士

[O-Card]

大きです

[RikunFrances]

I'm in my third year of Japanese, so I can help with what I can help with. :>

[Cup]

For names you just want them written in katakana? IIRC some of the atxs characters had names that have a kanji as well. Like Eat could be　食　or　イート or even　タベル (if you want the name to sound as odd in the Japanese as Eat does in English, it looks pretty weird to me though, so I don't recommend that last one ).

[RikunFrances]

I think they'd be better in Katakana as names that are not Japanese heritage are usually katakana.

[Cup]

If he wants the name to be something like Eat, then yes. But the word eat exists in Japanese too, unlike the name Charles or something, so they could choose to translate it as the Japanese word instead.

イート　would be the normal way to go, but I wouldn't really describe atxs as "normal," so wanted to toss that out there. Seeing a character named 食 feels hilarious to me.

I doubt Eat would show up in this book, but I thought there were other characters named similarly.

[RikunFrances]

But with the Japanese names there's no context and there may be a problem with double meanings (?)
And verbs are just kind of silly.

[[AOD]]

Dude, think about how weird names like "Shift", "Eat" and "Accelerate" sound in English! I think it'd be totally within spirit to translate them literally as the Japanese equivalents.

!~[AOD]

[RikunFrances]

Whatever raocow picks. I'm not that smart anyways after all..

[[AOD]]

Oh man, but what if he picks one thing and I pick the other?!

A dilemma!

!?~[AOD]

[Argumentable]

Then we go with the guy with the actual talent

[BTYM]

I got almost halfway through 1st year Japanese before I got sick and missed like, everything. So you can ask me anything you need to know.

[Dan]

the answer is a resounding no

[Cup]

----In case this hasn't already been resolved satisfactorily through PMs-----

Honestly, anyone in this thread should be able to do this though. Even if you've never studied Japanese a day in your life, you can write out the names by searching katakana on Google and getting a chart. I can't imagine this taking more than five minutes even if you're looking at it for the first time.

Google translate would actually be fine for individual verbs, but I suggest and online dictionary instead as they tend to provide better context.

The sentence is the only thing that might require some knowledge of the language. If either raocow or AoD wants to post that here, I'm sure they'd have a translation of that in about 5 minutes. And if anyone is stuck with anything, feel free to PM me.

There might be some minor choices that may be better made by someone fluent, but I'm assuming this is more of an easter egg for atxs' English speaking readers anyway, so very, very few would pick up on them.

[[AOD]]

Then we go with the guy with the actual talent

That'd be raocow, then, right?

?~[AOD]

[rubberfishy]

I don't know if you guys know this but raocow is just one of many persona's that [AOD] controls on the internet and the real world.

[AUS]

I don't know if you guys know this but [AOD] is just one of many persona's that raocow controls on the internet and the real world and rubberfishy is gay homo fag.

Fixed.

[rubberfishy]

I'm getting the tiniest little feeling that maybe you are opposed to people of the gay persuasion AUS.
I really don't know where I'm getting this feeling.

[O-Card]

not to mention aod is obviously the one pulling the strings I mean seriously



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