Subject: Re: name translation
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Posted on: 2010-08-15 18:57:00 UTC
With specific regards to Harry Potter, one of the reasons for name translation, at least of Voldemort's name, is to maintain the anagram ("Tom Marvolo Riddle" —> "I am Lord Voldemort"). Thus, in French, he's "Tom Elvis Jedusor" to allow for "je suis Voldemort".
But "Voldemort" doesn't change, even though it actually means something in French.
If you hang out in the IRC, you may have heard Barid and I talking about the Super Secret Co-Write of Secrecy. But what NO ONE knows is that the secret was that we had a third writer, whose identity we choose not to reveal just yet. (Mostly because she's asleep right now.) Yes, that's right. A three-way co-write. The last time this happened, it took years to complete. But not this time. You see, we've polished and posted it this very night!
The Dark Side, a World of Warcraft x Fullmetal Alchemist crossover.
We've got Dwarves. We've got Trolls. We've even got One Thousande Elephantes!
... Okay, maybe not. There is an elekk, though, which is kinda like an elephant. And it's a long mission, so bring snacks.
But most of all, enjoy!
~Neshomeh, Barid, and Guest.
Fantastic! The time-traveling portion was a little difficult to follow, but the ending was absolutely terrific.
How might we have improved the time-travel to make it easier to follow? It is not that I am planning to do anymore time-traveling with these agents, but it is always good to know.
I don't know much at all about the canons involved, but I really enjoyed this mission. That was an impressive amount of work!
Anyway, greatly enjoyed it. Very nice mission, and welcome back Suicide and Diocletian!
I love the way you worked the Board activities into the mission. How long had you all been planning this food fight?
The food fight was a spur-of-the-moment thing that I decided one night. I turned to Nesh and said something along the lines of "You know, I think it is about time for a food fight on the board." And then I instigated one to the best of my abilities.
The epilogue section with the food fight was because it was still fresh in my mind and I decided that it would be good to use it. So yeah, no planning involved at all.
Glad you liked the mission. Tune in next time. Same Troll time, same Troll channel.
I am in a group of FIVE people and co-write a... thing that would drive an entire department mad. It's a mega-crossover that started as a parody, but evolved into a more serious story.However, I was 14 when we begun, and the others even younger (one as 9), so it's quite a bad-witten thing at the beginning, but now we write better (it was our "writing gym", we used it to improve). It has a double Creativity Shield and it is placed in an AU, just to avoid troubles, since there are too much things that would cause troubles to canons. Just a small list: Sakura and Li from Card Captor Sakura break up (and that erases Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle from existance), it's revealed that Voldemort was good while Albus Silente and Harry Potter evil, and a lot of things that usually would be charges. However, we are trying to save the good original plot and characters for an original story.
Ours got finished. How about yours? {; p
Also... Albus Silente? Is that Albus Dumbledore's name in the Italian translation?
I never understand it when names get "translated", unless it would actually mean something weird or offensive in the other language. But what could Dumbledore possibly mean? As far as I know it's a nonsense word.
~Neshomeh
With specific regards to Harry Potter, one of the reasons for name translation, at least of Voldemort's name, is to maintain the anagram ("Tom Marvolo Riddle" —> "I am Lord Voldemort"). Thus, in French, he's "Tom Elvis Jedusor" to allow for "je suis Voldemort".
But "Voldemort" doesn't change, even though it actually means something in French.
Presumably someone figured if they were going to translate one of the names, they might as well do more than one.
Since it is a sort of "writing gym" it doesn't have an end, there are many arc, every one with its plot. Currently, it has something like 200+ pages.
However, we are planning to use the Original Characters and some of the plot in an original fiction, or maybe in a book.
And, yes. In Italy Albus Dumbledore is known as Silente. It's mainly to give a meaning in Italian, "silente" means "silent", but usually is used with the meaning of "silent and wise"
That sounds fun, actually. More like an ongoing role-play than a story, maybe.
Good luck with the book part. {= )
That's interesting. It certainly fits him, though according to the Harry Potter Lexicon, Rowling chose "Dumbledore" because it's an old word for bumblebee, and she imagines him walking around humming to himself. Not quite silent. (Guess I was wrong about it being a nonsense word.)
~Neshomeh
it's similar to a roleplay, every autor has an Author Avatar (originally they were self-inserts, but later they became independent characters) and is written as a roundrobin.
It features characters from "La bambina della Sesta Luna" (an Italian book, the story started on the author's forum), Detective Conan, Card Captor Sakura, Harry Potter, and a lot of cameo appearance. The last chapters are quite decent (if chapters is the right name, by now they are 161 with leght between 1/3 of a page and a couple pages), but at the beginning it was a complete mess. In fact, its name is "Mai Dire Fine" (literally "Never Say End", quite appropriate) but we call it "Thriller Polpettonico" (roughly "poutpourry thriller", where thriller was used wityh the meaning of "action and suspance" and "polpettonico"... for all remaining)
It's the home continuum of the detective and rally car driver Sergio Turbo, alias the Third Turbo and the one from which Agent Sergio Turbo (Sixth Turbo) was cloned.
So, yes. In this story Sakura breaks up with Shaoran and now it's Third!Sergio's girlfriend. And this is the reason behind Sakura being Sixth!Sergio's LO. And why I had to put all those things around this story to prevend a dangerous collpasing of tons of canon.
Not to make us seem like attention whores, but... No reaction to the ending at all? Really? I thought people would be a lot more excited. Are you all THAT new, that this holds no significance for you? Or did we really screw up and make it not a surprise and/or interesting at all? O.o
~Neshomeh, pleased at the positive responses (thanks for commenting!), but very confused.
At first I thought you were the one who wrote Agents Suicide and Diocletain, mainly cause the preserved archive doesn't have TM down as the author.
Not to mention that I was gone when TM retired, and I could've sworn I've seen the name floating around the posting board for some reason.
Eeee! Is T_M back?
I see, I see. Perhaps that's what is tricking everyone else, too. Well, anyway, yes: our guest author is Tungsten_Monk, who is back. At least until certain unfinished business is seen to. Muahaha. *eg*
And yeah, the lack of author-naming is currently a flaw in the Lost Tales archive. The trouble is that sometimes I don't know who the author was, or if there were two, or if they just went by their agent's name, and suchlike. But still, I should fix that.
~Neshomeh
I was wondering what T_M meant by being back. As well as the location of the mission that Diocletain and Suicide went missing out of.^^,
For the authors, I think the Wiki might be helpful - that's how I figured out what you were referencing. And the other possibility is that people might be thinking that you've been the one writing Diocletain and Suicide.
Thank the Bronze Dragonflight!
I saw a misspelling of "barbel," but that's no big deal. I literally laughed out loud at the "desidion."
Draenei tail swat = epic.
I'm liking the "wrong target" twist, flirty dragons, the use of "foul dwimmerlaik," and dragonhawk-in-the-face.
And at last, we know why the cafeteria has that sign.
I will fix that misspelling. I only heard it spoken and didn't bother to look it up. Whoops.
I thought "dwimmerlaik" was particularly appropriate to the situation, given its original use and Arthas being what he is. Though, come to think of it, it's probably lucky that our agents aren't powerful enough to truly exorcise him of his canonical evil. That would have been really awkward. O.o
You have Barid to thank for the "wrong target" and the flirty dragon. The dragonhawk was a conjoined effort, I think, that came naturally out of discussions about character classes and attributes. Not to mention the fact that we talked about Ilraen's pet enough in the course of the mission. It was our Chekov's dragonhawk gun. {= )
The sign predated Agent Barid, but he certainly justifies its continued existence...
Glad you enjoyed. {= )
~Neshomeh
And most enjoyable with chocolate coated popcorn.
And excellent choice of snack.