#Machine translation

[dunmeshistash]

hello master meshi, i was wondering if we know what kabru's party gets up to post-canon? i think i've read fics where rin has a magic items shop and mickbell and kuro run a rival noodle shop to mithrun but i'm wondering if those are canon or fan speculation

There's a small blurb to what the characters do at the end of their profiles in the new adventurer's bible but I haven't seen it translates so every time I just run it on google translate forgive me

Kabru - Stayed in Melini and is studying under Yaad

Mickbell and Kuro - Running a general store? together

Dia - Married working with her husband in Kahka Brud

Rin - Stayed with Kabru in Melini working as a pharmacist?

Holm - Working in Kahka Brud

Here's the originals for anyone can actually translate it

[rathologic]

Have you memorized all of Pathologic 2's conversations? Find yourself skipping through dialogue on your replays and ignoring item descriptions? Do you wish that you understood the game less?

Here's a new mod that will fix it for you :-)

[suspiciouscatastrophe]

An Experiment With Machine Translation/AI

Hello there, my friends! Usually, I'm posting about trans stuff. Today, I'm going to switch it up for translation.

So you see, I'm a student and translation studies are one of the degrees I'm desperately vying for. This week, one of my classes had an interesting assignment: We got an excerpt from a book (The Map of Us by Jules Preston) and our goal was not only to translate it but also create a second version, using a machine translation or ChatGPT. A lot of translation work nowadays is being more or less AI's factchecker and editor, so like it or not (and you can believe me that I don't like it), it's a skill to have.

And I thought I would share the comparisons! They're not surprising. They all show that unedited AI or MT is not by any means ready to replace human translators, the least of all in art. However, the ways they fail are quite interesting!

I was also fully prepared for ChatGPT, being, you know, a language model, to blow poor Google Translate out of the water. And while it was definitely the more creative of the two, it also performed... worse overall...? You can be the judge of that!

And of course, this post is best enjoyed if you're a Czech speaker, but if you happen not to speak Czech or Slovak, don't hesitate to read on anyway, I'll provide additional translation back into English for the fails.

And... if you happen to be a human with a penchant for translation and you're cringing at my solutions, trembling with the need to correct me, you will make me cry, but go ahead.

Example 1:

ENG: She did not ask his opinion, for he had already shown himself to be difficult and ill-tempered when it came to making a choice.

HT (human translator): Na jeho názor se ani neptala, protože už věděla, jak protivný dokázal být, když se musel rozhodovat.

GT (Google Translate): Neptala se ho na názor, protože se už ukázal jako obtížný a špatně naladěný, když došlo na volby.

[She did not ask his opinion, because he has already shown himself to be hard to do and ill-tempered when it came to elections.]

AI (ChatGPT): Neptala se na jeho názor, protože už ukázal, že je těžko rozhodnutelný a náladový, pokud šlo o výběr.

[She did not ask his opinion, because he has already shown himself to be hard to decide and moody in the matter of selection.]

In this one, I think the bots reached a tie in being wrong. Machine translation is notoriously wonky on composite sentences, however ChatGPT genuinely surprised me with somehow managing to "think" a little forward and already connecting "difficult" (těžko) with "making a choice" (rozhodnout se) and laboriously birthing "těžko rozhodnutelný" which would mean "difficult to decide/judge" but in the context of e.g. a competition being tight and it being difficult for the judges to choose the winner. It's not used with sentient beings at all. In my version, I've decided to merge the descriptors "difficult and ill-tempered" into one word "protivný" which is a little more general in meaning, so it encompasses both and drives home the idea of being a neutral way to call out somebody's mean and problem-generating behavior.

Example 2:

ENG: Every time she would have to press a small button and the top of the Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriter would pop open automatically, making the interior of the machine accessible.

HT: Pokaždé, když se to stalo, musela zmáčknout čudlík, aby se horní část jejího psacího stroje Royal Quiet Deluxe automaticky odklopila a ona mohla sáhnout dovnitř.

GT: Pokaždé by musela stisknout malé tlačítko a horní část psacího stroje Royal Quiet Deluxe se automaticky otevřela, čímž se zpřístupnil vnitřek stroje.

(no fail here as far as I can tell)

AI: Každýkrát musela stisknout malé tlačítko a víko psacího stroje Royal Quiet Deluxe se automaticky otevřelo, což umožnilo přístup k vnitřku stroje.

[Everyonetimes she had to press a small button and the top of the Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriter would pop open automatically, making it possible to access the interior of the machine.]

Now, the word "každýkrát" means "every time," however, in SLOVAK, not in Czech. Two completely different languages. In Czech? "Každý" means "everyone" and "krát" means "time(s)" (as in multiplying something), so "everyonetimes." I'm quite sure that passing the word as Czech counts as an anti-Slovak microaggression XD Google Translate slayed here, no mistakes, I would just word it differently because I've got that Human Touch TM and an insufferable superiority complex.

Example 3:

ENG: There was an 'e' in 'nose' and 'ear.'

HT: Nos i ucho měly 'o.'

This one is rigged against both GT and AI because what they do is gluing the most probable translation equivalents together, and they have no way of knowing that the letter the words "nose" (nos) and "ear" (ucho) share in Czech is "o" and not "e". GT performed as expected.

GT: V 'nosu' a 'uchu' bylo 'e'.

(besides making it sound a little like the letter was physically in someone's nose and ear, it's fine)

But ChatGPT? I wouldn't actually expect it to solve the problem and correctly switch the letters, but given that it is supposed to be much more advanced than GT, I had my hopes high and thought that it would show at least a trace of acknowledgment of the part being somehow difficult. AI: Bylo tam 'e' ve slovech 'nos' a 'ucho'.

[There was an 'e' in the words 'nos' and 'ucho'.] (liar)

Despite those words noticeably lacking in the "e" department, it's worth noting that while GT went out of its way to try to make it sound natural (too natural, in fact), its supposedly smarter cousin fully copied the English sentence structure, which is technically gramatically correct but sounds extremely reverse-Czenglish. (I guess if Czenglish is a Czech-speaking learner's English influenced by Czech, that makes an English-speaking learner's Czech... Ech. It sounds extremely Ech.)

Example 4:

ENG: Did it matter what an imaginary explorer's lips looked like or felt like?

HT: Záleželo vůbec na tom, jak vypadaly rty imaginárního dobrodruha, nebo jaké byly na dotek?

GT: Záleželo na tom, jak vypadaly nebo jak vypadaly rty imaginárního průzkumníka?

[Did it matter what an imaginary explorer's lips looked like or looked like?]

AI: Záleželo na tom, jak vypadají nebo jak se cítí rty imaginárního dobrodruha?

[Did it matter what an imaginary explorer's lips looked like or how they were feeling?]

Do facts care about the your (lips') feelings? As someone who likes to play around with GT quite a lot, I'm very familiar with the "when in doubt, just repeat whatever you've last said" strategy. If you fuck with it long enough, you can make the poor tool repeat one phrase so many times it fills the entire line. However, the mistake ChatGPT made perplexes me. It feels very humanizing. It's a mistake I can easily imagine an actual learner making, failing to distinguish between "to feel like" (comparison) and "to feel" (to experience a feeling). It's a mistake I would totally make several years ago, and fuck it, maybe even now if I'm trying to read fast on a very bad day. Good job at doing a bad job, GPT.

Anyway, these 4 were probably the funniest and most interesting of the whole excerpt. I must admit that analyzing them turned out to be a humbling experience because revisiting my work, I've noticed several mistakes I've made as well that I can't take back, because I've already turned the assignment in. Oh well. However, I did have fun!

I hope you had fun, too! Stay těžko rozhodnutelní!

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Kristova noho

[amalgamasreal]

Japanese Endorsement of Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire

The Godzilla Double Feature in 109 Screen X locations in Japan started last night where they were showing Godzilla Minus One and Godzilla X Kong back to back with an intermission, which was a genius move that I need to happen here in the States immediately.

But anyways, the reviews from the Japanese viewers who are seeing GxK for the first time are some of the best I've ever seen (excuse the machine translations):

I don't know about you, but someone telling me "it was a silly movie made by an idiot and it was very good" is a ringing endorsement and would get my butt into a seat faster than anything else. 🤣🤣🤣

[water-lemon-alex]

Machine TL from a recent tweet from the producer and composer of the Rhythm Heaven series, Tsunku!

“Here it comes! The long-awaited newest "Rhythm Heaven" entry has been announced for release! It's called "Rhythm Heaven: Miracle Stars"! (“Rhythm Heaven Groove” / “Rhythm Paradise Groove”!)

I've been working on the music a lot over the past few years, and it looks like it's going to be full of love! In fact, all the staff members are currently working hard on the production! I'll keep trying my best! Look forward to it!”

Thank you Tsunku, we say in unison 🙏💕

[xiaokuer-schmetterling]

ZOMG TODAY I LEARNED THERE'S A JAPANESE STAGE PLAY ADAPTATION OF MDZS. WITH A LIVE STREAM. FOR MY BIRTHDAY ???!!!

from https://l-tike.zaiko.io/e/mdzsstage (full machine translation & original text from website included below the cut)

streaming event:

sun 4/6 11:30am JST => sat 4/5 10:30pm EDT

sun 4/6 5pm JST => sun 4/6 4am EDT

TICKET PRICES (as of 2025-02-21)

sunday. 2025-04-06. 1130 JST -> JP¥3,687 (all purchase taxes& fees included) => USD $24.70

sunday. 2025-04-06. 1700 JST -> JP ¥4,753 (all purchase taxes& fees included) => USD $31.84

*Please note that you will only be able to watch the streamed footage at the same time as the performance, and will not be able to watch it after the performance has ended.

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what does ticket purchase site look like? (iphone chrome browser btw)

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btw. i live in florida, usa. so that's the currency and time zone i converted to! resources used to make this post: google translate & currency conversion and world time zones converter (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)

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Event date

04/06 (Sun) 11:30 – LATE JST

Event type

Stage/Show

Stage play "The Master of Diabolism" Encounter Edition April 6th (Sunday) Final Day Performance (Full View) Kyoto Theater

Streaming-Stream date

04/06 (Sun) 11:30 JST

Stage play "The Master of Diabolism" Encounter Edition April 6th (Sunday) Final Night Performance (Switching) Kyoto Theater

Streaming-Stream date

04/06 (Sun) 17:00 JST

[Notes]

〇The stage play "The Founder of Diabolism" Encounter Edition will only be streamed live. There will be no catch-up or archived streaming.

*Please note that you can only watch the streaming video at the same time as the performance, and you will not be able to watch it after the performance has ended.

〇The stage play "The Founder of Diabolism" Encounter Edition will not be released on Blu-ray/DVD.

[Official stage website]

https://stage.mdzs.jp/

[Introduction]

The global mega-hit fantasy novel "The Master of Diabolism" has finally been adapted for the stage!

The original work is the BL fantasy novel "The Master of Diabolism" by author Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, which was serialized on a Chinese online novel site from October 2015 to March 2016.

The story is set in a fictional ancient China where magicians exterminate demons and evil spirits. The detailed and epic story depicting the turbulent fate of two people bound by a strong bond and the charming characters have been well received, and the novel has been translated and published overseas. It has been developed

into a variety of media mixes such as radio dramas, manga, anime, and live-action dramas, and the video works have been viewed more than 15 billion times in total. It has caused a social phenomenon in Asian countries, and its popularity has not stopped, and it is now explosively popular all over the world.

In Japan, the live-action drama version of "The Untamed" (subtitled version) was broadcast in March 2020, the anime "The Master of Diabolism" (subtitled and dubbed versions) was broadcast, the radio drama was distributed, the original novel was translated and published, and the Japanese version of the manga will be serialized in 2024, and it has been a hot topic of conversation.

Now, it has finally been decided that the story will be adapted into a stage play, a world first.

The subtitle of this first stage production of "The Master of Diabolism" is "Encounter Edition," and it depicts a profound world view and complex human drama.

In addition, a talented cast and staff have come together to mark a new chapter in the media mix development of "The Founder of Diabolism." The script and direction are by Ise Naohiro, who is active in a wide range of fields, mainly in the theater. The music is by Sakabe Tsuyoshi, who has worked in a wide range of genres, including theater, television, and film. In addition, Gearous, who has worked on many illustrations for "The Founder of Diabolism" in the past, has participated as the main illustrator to create new visuals for the stage. The character designs will be produced in collaboration with the production committee for the stage production of "The Founder of Diabolism."

The lead character, Wei Wu-Xian, will be played by Shunya Kaneko, who made his debut as a child actor in "Big! Tensai Terebi-kun" and has since appeared in such films as "Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga" and "Perfect Proposal", making this his stage debut. The role of Lan Wangji will be played by Hirose Tomoki (Touken Ranbu the Movie, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Kimetsu no Yaiba Part 2 Kizuna, etc.), who is active in a variety of fields including stage and film. The cast also includes a range of actors, from fresh faces to experienced and talented actors, such as Wada Takuma (stage show Touken Ranbu, MANKAI STAGE A3!, etc.), Komatsu Junya (Kamen Rider Revise, stage show Romeo & Juliet, etc.), Tamura Shogo (Dancing☆Star PreCure The Stage, Touken Ranbu the Musical, etc.), and Murata Mitsuru (Attack on Titan -The Musical-, HUNTER×HUNTER THE STAGE 2, etc.).

This production is brought to you by Sony Music Solutions Inc., which has been developing the TV drama, anime, and manga of "The Founder of Diabolism" in Japan, and Marvelous Inc., which has produced numerous stage productions.

Look forward to the stage production of "The Founder of Diabolism," which is full of charms that can only be experienced in live entertainment, such as the powerful sword fights unfolding before your eyes.

[Story]

The world is an age of tyranny by the Qishan Wen clan, and the people suffer.

The Gusu Lan clan, Yunmeng Jiang clan, Lanling Jin clan, Qinghe Nie clan and other immortal ascetics join forces and succeed in defeating the Wen clan. Among them, Wei Wuxian, the Yiling Patriarch, made a great contribution, but he was feared by the people because he was involved in the powerful demon arts, and eventually he was ruined. Then, thirteen years later,

Wei Wuxian, who was revived by magic, encounters a strange incident and is reunited with his fateful partner, Lan Wangji of the Gusu Lan clan. As he investigates the incident, he approaches the truth of what happened thirteen years ago - the story of the turbulent destiny of these two people begins.

[Staff]

Original work: "The Master of Diabolism" by Mo Xiang Tong Shu

Script and direction: Naohiro Ise Music: Tsuyoshi Sakabe Main illustrator: Gearous

[Cast]

Wei Wuxian (played by Junya Kaneko) Lan Wangji (played by Tomoki Hirose)

Jiang Cheng (played by Takuma Wada) Lan Xichen (played by Junya Komatsu)

Jin Ling (Jin Lin): Shogo Tamura

Lan Si-Zhui (played by Ando Yumeka) Lan Jingyi (played by Tsuchiya Naotake)

Nie Huaisang (voiced by Yasui Kazuma) Jin Zi Xuan (voiced by Takeshi Naoki)

Lan Qi Ren (voiced by Mitsuru Murata)

ⒸStage "The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation" Production Committee

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, a contracted author of Jinjiang Literature City

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Event date

04/06 (Sun) 11:30 – LATE JST

Event type

Stage/Show

舞台『魔道祖師』邂逅編　4月6��(日)千秋楽　昼公演（全景）　京都劇場

Streaming

Stream date

04/06 (Sun) 11:30JST

舞台『魔道祖師』邂逅編　4月6日(日)千秋楽　夜公演（スイッチング）　京都劇場

Streaming

Stream date

04/06 (Sun) 17:00JST

【注意事項】

〇舞台『魔道祖師』邂逅編の配信はライブ配信のみです。見逃し配信・アーカイブ配信はございません。

　※公演と同じタイミングでしか配信映像をご視聴いただけず、公演終了後にはご視聴できませんのでご注意ください

〇舞台『魔道祖師』邂逅編はBlu-ray/DVDの発売はございません。

【舞台公式サイト】

https://stage.mdzs.jp/

【Introduction】

世界的メガヒットファンタジー小説『魔道祖師』、ついに舞台化決定！

原作は、作家・墨香銅臭（モーシャントンシウ）により、中国のオンライン小説サイトにて2015年10月から2016年3月にかけて連載されたBLファンタジー小説『魔道祖師』。

物語の舞台は、法術を使う者が妖魔や邪鬼を退治する架空の古代中国。強い絆で結ばれた2人の激動の運命を描いた緻密で壮大なストーリーと魅力的なキャラクターが反響を呼び、海外でも小説が翻訳、出版された。

ラジオドラマ、漫画、アニメ、実写ドラマなど様々なメディアミックスを展開し、映像作品はシリーズ累計150億回再生超。アジア各国で社会現象を巻き起こし、その人気はとどまることを知らず今では世界中で爆発的な人気を誇る。

日本では、2020年3月に実写ドラマ版「陳情令」（字幕版）が放送され、アニメ「魔道祖師」（字幕版・吹替版）放送、ラジオドラマ配信、原作小説和訳出版、さらに2024年には日本版漫画の連載開始と、たびたび大きな話題となっている。

そしてこのたび、ついに世界初のコンテンツとなる舞台化が決定。

舞台『魔道祖師』の第一弾となる本作の副題には“邂逅編（かいこうへん）”と銘打ち、重厚な世界観と複雑な人間ドラマを描き出す。

また、『魔道祖師』のメディアミックス展開に新たな1ページを刻むにあたり、実力派スタッフ・キャストが集結。脚本・演出は、舞台を中心にマルチに活動する伊勢直弘。音楽は、舞台やテレビ、映画と幅広いジャンルを手掛ける坂部 剛が務める。さらに、舞台用にビジュアルを新調するため、��れまでにも『魔道祖師』のイラストを数多く手掛けているGearousがメインイラストレーターとして参加。舞台『魔道祖師』製作委員会と共同で、キャラクターデザインの制作を手掛ける。

主人公・魏無羨（ウェイ･ウーシエン）を演じるのは、『大！天才てれびくん』で子役デビュー後、『ウルトラマントリガー NEW GENERATION TIGA 』、『パーフェクトプロポーズ』などの映像出演を重ね、今回が初舞台となる金子隼也。藍忘機（ラン・ワンジー）役は、舞台や映画など様々な場で活躍する廣瀬智紀（『映画刀剣乱舞』、舞台「鬼滅の刃」其ノ弐 絆 等）がダブル主演として務めるほか、和田琢磨（舞台『刀剣乱舞』、MANKAI STAGE『A3!』等）、小松準弥（「仮面ライダーリバイス」、舞台「ロミオ&ジュリエット」等）、田村升吾（『Dancing☆Star プリキュア』The Stage、ミュージカル『刀剣乱舞』等）、村田 充（「進撃の巨人」-The Musical-、 『HUNTER×HUNTER』THE STAGE 2 等）など俳優陣はフレッシュな顔ぶれから経験豊富な実力派までが勢揃い。

これまで日本で『魔道祖師』のドラマ・アニメ・漫画を展開している株式会社ソニー・ミュージックソリューションズと、数々の舞台作品を手掛ける株式会社マーベラスが共同でお届けする本作。

目の前で繰り広げられる迫力満点の殺陣など、ライブエンタテインメントでしか体感できない魅力が詰まった舞台『魔道祖師』をお楽しみに。

【Story】

世は岐山温（きざんウェン）氏が暴虐の限りを尽くし、民が苦しみにあえぐ時代。

姑蘇藍（こそラン）氏・雲夢江（うんむジャン）氏・蘭陵金（らんりょうジン）氏・清河聶（せいがニエ）氏をはじめとする仙門の修行者らは力をあわせ、温氏の討伐に成功する。

なかでも夷陵老祖（いりょうろうそ）である魏無羨（ウェイ・ウーシエン）は貢献を果たしたが、強大な力を持つ鬼道に手を染めたがゆえに人々に恐れられ、やがて身の破滅を招いてしまう。

そして十三年後。

呪術によって蘇った魏無羨は怪事件に出くわし、宿命の相手、姑蘇藍氏の藍忘機（ラン・ワンジー）と再会する。

事件を追ううちに十三年前の真相に迫ることとなり―――

2人の激動の運命をめぐる物語が始まる。

【Staff】

原作：『魔道祖師』墨香銅臭

脚本・演出：伊勢直弘��音楽：坂部 剛　メインイラストレーター：Gearous

【Cast】

魏無羨（ウェイ・ウーシエン） 役：金子隼也　　　藍忘機（ラン・ワンジー） 役：廣瀬智紀

江澄（ジャン・チョン） 役：和田琢磨　　　藍曦臣（ラン・シーチェン） 役：小松準弥

金凌 役（ジン・リン）：田村升吾

藍思追（ラン・スージュイ） 役：安藤夢叶　　　藍景儀（ラン・ジンイー） 役：土屋直武

聶懐桑（ニエ・ホワイサン） 役：安井一真　　　金子軒（ジン・ズーシュエン） 役：武子直輝

藍啓仁（ラン・チーレン） 役：村田 充

ほか

Ⓒ舞台『魔道祖師』製作委員会

改編自晋江文学城簽約作者墨香銅臭同名小説

[girlyholic]

Today in why not to trust Google Translate when it comes to Japanese articles:

Its AI somehow "hallucinated" female genitals due to the association of oshikatsu with sex work. It's not rare for machine translations to be affected by overseas mistranslations and stereotypes, so it also happened to an acquaintance that an article about black communities in Japan (黒人系日本人) decided to suddenly become about "black fashion" solely because of the common overseas misconception that "kei=style" when it's also the middle term for ethnic groups.

[yuzurujenn]

Throwback to Eita & Sadao Abe getting starstruck by Yuzuru Hanyu in 2016

[dontfollowme-kay]

Every goddamn lines of Wesker in CVX but Japanese

Wesker's lines in jp version of Code: Veronica X are machine translated. Blue is English and purple is translation from Japanese script. If there're lines without trans then it's because en ver has the same meaning with jp ver

Meeting Claire

「お���がクリスの妹：クレア・レッドフィールドか。」

"Greetings! You must be the lovely Claire Redfield."

"You're Chris's sister, Claire Redfield?"

「お前の兄：クリスに殺され、復讐のために地獄から蘇った亡霊だ。」

"Lets just say that I’m a ghost, coming back to haunt your...dear brother."

"Killed by your brother Chris, I'm a ghost coming back from hell for revenge."

(Mmm yes the first thing Jp Wesker did when he met Claire is making shit up when in fact it was his pet tyrant shishkabob-ed him)

「その通り。この島を攻撃したのも、この俺だ。まさかお前がここに捕まっているとは知らずにな。だが、却ってそれが幸いした。お前はクリスをここに呼んでくれた。妹想いの奴は、必ずこの島へ現れるだろう。楽しみだよ。」

"It seems there’s not much explaining to do is there? I was the one who attacked this island. Who'd of thought you'd be hanging about? All the better for me, now that the cat dragged in this nice surprised. Your ever so caring brother, he'll definitely show up. I must thank you for being such good bait."

"That's right. It was I who attacked this island. Though I had no idea you'd been held captive here. However, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. You brought Chris here. That brother of yours, who cares a lot for his sister, will definitely show up on this island. I’m looking forward to it."

「俺はクリスが憎い！」

"I despise Chris!"

「お前が死ねば、クリスは悲しむだろう。」

"Oh how your brother will be surprised to see you die"

"If you die, Chris sure will be devastated."

(En version made it look like Wesker thought Chris would have a "omg you died???" reaction to dead Claire first than an emotional breakdown... I mean it's usually the case if your loved ones suddenly died)

「俺だ。何ッ！？そうか・・・すぐ戻る。」

"What? What is it?! Stay there, I’m coming."

"It's me. What?! I see... I'll return soon."

「お前にもう一活躍してもらった方が良さそうだ。もう少しそ���命を預けよう」

"It appears you may be of some further use to me, I’m going to let you live...a little longer."

"It seems better to let you prove yourself useful one more time. I’ll let you keep that life of yours a little longer."

Saying hi to old "friend" (1)

「アレクシア！くそっ！もう目覚めてしまったのか！！」

"Alexia?! No! She's already fully awake."

"Alexia?! Damn it! She's already woken up?!"

「クリス…、やはり現れたな。」

"Chris. Oh little fishy, come see my hook."

"Chris... As I expected, you did show up."

(Uh...why it's so wildly different here?)

「待っていろ、クリス。今、プレゼントを送ってやる。俺から旧友へのささやかなもてなしだ。受けてくれ。」

"Chris, I'm sending some company to keep you entertained. Consider this a small welcoming gift from me. Enjoy."

"Just you wait, Chris. I'm going to send you a gift, a small token of hospitality from me to my old friend. Please accept it."

Saying hi to old "friend" (2)

「久しぶりだなクリス」

"Long time no see, Chris."

「目的はアレクシアだ。」

"I came for Alexia."

"My objective is Alexia."

「彼女を捕らえるために雇われた。」

"An organization hired me to capture her."

"I was hired to capture her."

「お前が憎い。八つ裂きにしても足らないほどな。お前が俺の計画を打ち壊した…。だから、俺は新たな組織に魂を売った。ここで死ね！！」

"You have no idea how much I hate you. You destroyed my plans, so now I sold my soul to a new organization. Now die."

"Oh how I despise you. So much that not even tearing you apart would be enough. You destroyed my plan...that's why I sold my soul to a new organization. Die here!"

「最後に教えてやる。ここのデータからお前の妹は南極にいる事が分かった。そして、アレクシアもな。残念だな。妹に会えずに死ぬとはな。」

"Here's a little secret Chris, I figured out that your sister is now in the Antarctic with Alexia. It's too bad you'll never be seeing her again."

"I’ll tell you one last thing. From the data here, I found out your sister is in the Antarctic, and so is Alexia. What a shame for you to die without being able to see your sister."

Wesker vs Alexia (not really)

「とうとう見つけたぞ、アレクシア。一緒に来るんだ。」

"At last, I found you Alexia. Come with me."

「お前は素晴らしいウイルス：T-Veronicaを作った。そして、そのサンプルは今、お前の体内にしかない。それが欲しいんだ。さぁ！」

"You're responsible for the creation of the T-Veronica virus. And now the only existing sample is in your body. I want it! Now!"

"You created the magnificent virus: T-Veronica. And now, its sample exists only in your body. I want it. Now!"

(Oh yeah, jp Wesker had a bit of fanboying over Alexia's subarashi virus I guess)

「力すぐでも連れて行くぜ！」

"You're coming with me!"

"I'll take you by force if I have to!"

「クリス！優秀な部下だった貴様に、ここは任せるとしよう。」

"Chris, since you're one of my best men, I'll let you handle this."

"Chris! You used to be an excellent underling, so I'll let you handle this." (Thanks Boss)

Wesker vs Chris

「見事だったな、クリス。結局アレクシアの研究は、大したものではなかった訳だ。こうなったら、後はお前への復讐を果たすだけだ！」

"Well done Chris. It turns out that Alexia's work wasn't much of anything, so now the only thing left now is revenge."

"Well done, Chris. In the end, Alexia’s research turned out to be nothing special. Now that it’s come to this, all that’s left is to take my revenge on you!"

「嬉しいぞ、クリス。アレクシアを追って来て、貴様を殺せるとは思わなかった。」

"Today's a good day, I came for Alexia, but killing you is even better."

"I’m glad, Chris. I never thought I’d be able to kill you while chasing Alexia."

「別に構わんよ。俺の手にはスティーブがあるからな。」

"Thats no longer a concern to me, I have Steve to work with."

"I don’t mind. After all I have Steve in my hands."

「奴の体内にはt-アレクシアが残っている。良い研究材料になるだろう。ひょっとしたら、俺のように蘇り、いつかお前の妹と再会できるかもしれんな。」

"In his body, there's still a little T-Alexia virus. Steve should be a good specimen. Maybe he'll come back alive, just as I did. And be able to see your sister again."

"There's still T-Alexia virus remains in his body. It will make for good research material. Who knows, maybe he’ll come back to life like I did and someday reunite with your sister."

(And right after that, jp Claire said 「スティーブを返して！」 which basically is "Give me Steve back!" instead of "Don't you touch him!")

「お嬢さん。残念だが、スティーブは先に部下が運び出したよ。」

"I'm sorry dearheart, but my men have already taken him."

"Young lady, I’m afraid my men have already taken Steve away."

(運び出す (to carry/transport to somewhere else) is used to refer to object more than people. Really tell you how much respect Wesker had for Steve's dead body)

Chris: "I'll end this once and for all, say 'hello' to my comrades who you've killed."/「今度こそ決着を付けてやる。貴様のせいで死んでいった仲間たちにあの世で詫びるんだな。」 ("This time, I’ll settle it once and for all. Go apologize to my comrades who died because of you in the other world!")

Wesker: 「大した自信だな、クリス。」

"I don't know where you get your confidence Chris."

"That's a lot of confidence, Chris."

「どうだ！人間である事と引き換えに手に入れた俺の力は」

"Sure i'm not human anymore, but look at the power I've gained!"

"How's that! The power I gained at the cost of my humanity!"

「その為ならどんな手段でも使ってやる。あの世に行くのはお前だ。」

"Magnificent, don't you think?"

"And I’ll use any means to achieve my goal. You’re the one who’ll be going to the other world!"

「おしかったな…」

"Nice try."

"That was close..."

「悪運の強い奴め。覚えておけ、次に会う時が貴様の最期だ。また会おう、クリス！」

"Today's your lucky day, next time we meet, don't count on another. Until we meet again."

"You’re one lucky bastard. Remember this: the next time we meet will be your last. Until we meet again, Chris!"

And that was it for Wesker and his wannabe Dio Brando phase in CV. He was still the same dramatic ass in both versions, however English script kinda tamed down his hatred for Chris. And jp Wesker was more "neutral" towards Claire without those mockingly affectionate words he said to her in en script. ("You must be the lovely Claire Redfield", "I'm sorry dearheart, but my men have already taken him")

[arnethmyndraavn]

(Outdated) JnKnA Preorder CD ~Maker Ver.~ Download + English MTL Patch

This version has been replaced by one with a real translation. see info on the newer version here: https://www.tumblr.com/arnethmyndraavn/776303288619597824/jnkna-preorder-cd-maker-ver-game-download?source=share

DL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zcy8FSI597xukH78-JRq99MK1jkGwhUl/view?usp=sharing This is a download for the preorder CD you'd get if you pre-ordered JnKnA from Quinrose back in the day. It contains some messages from voice actors and a short story focusing on Nightmare.

The CD has been tweaked to make it easier to play.

Tweaks include: Removed code requiring disc to be inserted into CD drive to play Code updated to run on English locale PCs English machine translation patch added patch.xp3 contains the English translation, so just delete it if you'd like to play in Japanese. This machine translation patch is not intended to be a replacement for official or fan translation. It is intended as an alternative to playing with VN OCR or just using google translate on your phone. It will have occasional nonsense translations or funny wordings.

If you encounter any game-breaking bugs please let me know.

[estonian-is-horrible]

statistikaamet: Millised nutiabimehed on Eesti elanike kodudes? 🤖

fb translate: What kind of nut job men are in the homes of Estonian residents?

[the-squeerrel]

I had a big "grammar nazi" phase a long time ago but now I've begun to actually enjoy seeing grammatical and ortographical "errors" in my native language as well as some awkardness in English that can only come from learning that language as foreign because at least I know that a human wrote that. there's a different vibe and a different type of errors in machine translation as well, and I appreciate the human mistakes there too

[therealvinelle]

Google translate seems to think that "full av faen" means "full of shit." Does "full av faen" imply someone is lying or deceitful in addition to be malicious/grouchy, or is Google the one who's full of shit?

Google is full of shit.

"Full av faen" is difficult to translate as there's no direct English equivalent, and machine translations struggle with idioms in general. "Full of shit" is its best guess because it's the most direct translation, what Google doesn't know is that "full av faen" and "full of shit" have very different meanings.

I can see you've already read my original post on the matter, but to explain a bit more what the idiom means:

Full av faen generally means horrible person, someone who is malicious and thoroughly rotten. Typically someone who's acting out, if you're scrolling through someone's reactionary and super negative twitter profile you might say "Wow, this person is just full av faen."

Or if it's a pet it would be that cat who just scratches you no matter what, the cat who makes dog lovers feel vindicated (why I said "a particularly grouchy cat").

Full of shit means someone who's full of lies, and that's a very different meaning.

I recommend you take machine translations with a large dose of skepticism, and if you must use one then my go-to for many years now has been context reverso (link). This is a translator that searches for occurrences of the word or phrase you want translated in available texts online, and provides the human translation in context. I'm worried the avalanche of machine translations online may cause the quality of the service to decline, but so far I haven't noticed any decline and often use it for French or Italian translation. Take context reverso with a pinch of salt too, however, because I've had problems like "I asked for X to be translated and got a perfect translation, however a native speaker would have said Y, not X and so the perfectly translated X was in fact still wrong".

The only real remedy to imperfect translation is to learn the language, and even then your brain won't process a second language as well as a native language and there will be subtle differences in how you use it. I'm very good at English, fluent by most standards, my co-writer @theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin still catches me making weird choices or subtle mistakes that are textbook mistakes for language learners.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

znavené: Střihoruký Edward

drátěné: Edward Střihavka

[onyxbird]

So, uh, "fun" fact: Be very careful with Google Translate and its input language settings, especially if you really have no idea what the text you're trying to translate is supposed to say, because under some circumstances it will blithely and confidently spit out reasonable-looking but extremely wrong translations, e.g., if the source language is set wrong. 😬 If you don't understand the source language at all, spot-checking some of the words to make sure they seem to make sense with the translation produced might be good idea.

I pasted in a German sentence from a post, since I wasn't familiar with some of the words used, and got a perfect English sentence instead of it just repeating the untranslated text, so I initially didn't notice that it was for some reason set to Thai as the source language. What I did notice was that the "translation" was wildly off from the input, only because I actually learned German and already had a rough idea what it should say. Puzzled, I put in a very similar sentence from the reblogs of the same post and got a completely different wrong "translation," also in perfect English.

At this point, I realized the problem with the settings, and confirmed that "Detect Language" correctly identified it as German, and produced a sensible translation when set to German or "Detect Language." Testing some other source languages, I found that most of them produced the expected behavior of just returning the untranslated text, but Thai produced false "translations" for both sentences, and French produced a false "translation" for one.

I don't know what caused it to "translate" stuff that wasn't in the language specified (when the usual behavior seemed/seems to be returning the untranslated text), but it definitely looked like a typical failure mode of GenAI just inventing output. I even tried translating the English back into Thai and playing the audio, just to see if it sounded like it could be transcribed as something resembling the original input text (it didn't to me), and translating the French "translation" back into French also didn't produce anything that seemed to closely resemble the original input, although I could at least identify a resemblance between one of the German words and one of the French words.

Entering an English sentence to be translated to German and setting the source language to Thai, French, Hebrew, or literally every other language I spot-checked caused it to generate a correct translation of the English sentence into German. I.e., in that case, it made absolutely no difference what language I told it the sentence was in, it simply ignored that setting and translated from English. 🙃

Google Translate has never been perfect, but I've found it very useful for a lot of stuff in the past. Seeing this is rather alarming.