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A brief introduction

Hello! 👋🏻

👩🏻 You can call me Victoria

🎂 I'm in my 30s

🇯🇵 Originally I'm from the UK, but I currently live in Japan

🇳🇴 Learning Norwegian (B2/C1, my heart language) and Japanese (N3, primary TL for obvious reasons)

🗣 Other languages I'm interested in: Finnish, Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Faroese, Spanish, Irish, Korean, Ukrainian, Tswana, Cornish, Serbian, Chinese and French

💬 Big linguistics fan too (etymology my beloved)

📚 I like reading (2026 tbr)

📝 I'm a hobby writer (primarily fantasy and fan fic)

🥐 Getting back into baking

🎮 Casual gamer

🧠 Neurodivergent (ADHD possibly AuDHD)

✉️ I'm shit at replying to messages (ADHD innit). If I never get back to you please don't take it personally!

😍 Forever hyperfixation: FF7 (Turks my beloved)

Tagging System

#introductory post #langblr #japanese langblr #norwegian langblr #language blog #bookblr #readblr

nihongo-ni-hon-yaku

“lukashenko’s dog is tube af” (source)

#flight on queue #nutcracker nihongo #translation #it IS tube af

Yeah I think I just need to start journalling generally. Not online, but with like, a blank page notebook, and rather than have a coherent stream of conscience, just treat it more like a scrapbook. Doodles, recipes, random thoughts, stickers, quotes, anecdotes, sketches etc. Messy and chaotic like my brain.

#chough chatterings

Might start keeping an anime and gaming journal because I'm tired of people talking to me about stuff I've watched/played and I'm like haha I did engage with that media but I don't remember anything about it

#chough chatterings #i mean. i could just write about it here but i'm still scarred from my teenage years of liking or feeling the 'wrong' things #and i'm just not very good at expressing myself or identifying my feelings generally. so this would probably help ig?

lieserli

nihongoseito

i've mentioned it before on this blog, but the NOA localizers did a lot of addition to the script of fe9 in english (to its benefit!). i looked up this scene on pegasusknight because i was interested in that "bound by courtesy" phrase (and also "brilliant"), but as it turns out...

1 人が気を使って言いにくいことを 2 はっきり言えるのが、 3 おまえのいいところでもあるんだ。

...this is all he says in japanese! (and you can confirm on serenesforest that the above gifs are in fact sequential dialogue in the NOA version.) here's a very to-the-letter translation:

2 the fact that you have no trouble saying 1 difficult things that other people would be careful about, 3 that's one of your good characteristics, too.

as far as actually translating the scene goes, i really like what the localizers did with this! the translation of いいところ (literally "good point") as "brilliant [point]" really enhances the line in english. i also really like that there was no hand-wringing about 気を使って言いにくいこと ("difficult things to say that require care"): condensing all that into the very snappy "things others won't [say]" is a great decision in my opinion. the fe9 localizers really knew where to embellish ("good" > "brilliant") vs. where to condense ("difficult to say" > "won't say").

and speaking of embellishment....how about that wholesale invented second text box?! two whole new lines just to elaborate on the last one! as i've said before elsewhere, the fe9 localizers had a vision and by god, they followed it. making ike more expressive! making ranulf meaner! can game translators get away with stuff like this nowadays??? i hope so!!

p.s. by the way, whoever compiled the scripts on pegasusknight literally named this conversation 口の利き方, "phrasing/tone of voice", because that's how ike describes the topic a few lines prior to these. in english, ike's line means "the way you phrase things", but it's funnier in japanese because what he says (口の利き方の話) can be translated literally (out of context) as "the talk about phrasing". whoever compiled this script must have been like, how can i describe this conversation at a glance? oh, right, the conversation about phrasing!

#flight on queue #nutcracker nihongo #translation #localization

Just had a 2-hour fight with Surfshark to get my damn internet to connect. "We detected another VPN" IT'S YOU. IT'S YOU CONNECTING WITHOUT ME ASKING YOU TO AND DOING A BAD JOB OF IT.

#ruffled feathers #i fixed it eventually after fiddling around in my laptop settings for a while #for someone who's not even remotely tech-savvy i'm surprisingly tech-savvy #and by that i mean 'i'm so un-tech-savvy i don't know what settings i shouldn't touch and touch them all and get lucky'#like idk what i'm doing but i can probably figure it out if i press enough buttons

mothermara

remember to bury the dead with a phone, everyone. these days the ferry terminal at the river styx wants you to download a fucking app

nihongo-ni-hon-yaku

皆さん、棺桶には必ず故人のスマホを入れておきましょう。最近は三途の川の渡り賃でさえスマホ決済でしか払えませんので

*I had to localize this for Japanese funeral processions (“cremate the dead with their smartphone in the casket”) and Japanese cultural beliefs (the dead crossing “the River Sanzu” instead of the River Styx)

#flight on queue #nutcracker nihongo #translation #localization

corvid-language-library

Vanligvis bruker jeg smør når jeg baker men den er så jævla dyr, så i dag skal jeg prøve å lage kjeks med margarin i stedet. Jeg fikk den aller billigste på butikken, så det kan hende at det går jævlig, men den er nesten tre ganger billigere enn smøren jeg pleier å bruke, og hvis den funker nok så kan jeg spare minste 500¥ hver uke

corvid-language-library

å herregud, jeg smakte på den margarinen etter at jeg hadde blanda den med sukkeret. Jævlig. Nesten uspiselig. Jeg kaster hele skåla og drar på butikken for å handle smør med det samme, fy faen. Det er noen greier man rett og slett ikke kan være gjerrig om

#jeg er bare glad at jeg ikke hadde blanda opp hele oppskrifta slik at jeg måtte kaste sjokoladen og melen og!

Vanligvis bruker jeg smør når jeg baker men den er så jævla dyr, så i dag skal jeg prøve å lage kjeks med margarin i stedet. Jeg fikk den aller billigste på butikken, så det kan hende at det går jævlig, men den er nesten tre ganger billigere enn smøren jeg pleier å bruke, og hvis den funker nok så kan jeg spare minste 500¥ hver uke

#nutcracker norsk #rett på mine feil #norwegian langblr #learning norwegian #jeg merka like nå at den ha salt i. pleier å bruke usaltet smør. håper det går bra hvis jeg bare utelate saltet jeg ellers skulle ha brukt

melongifts

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

melongifts

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

melongifts

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

spanishskulduggery

This reminds me of the recent twitter meme where someone was speaking Turkish and what they meant in Turkish was: "I'm going to make you lose your mind, old-school Turkish style" which is an idiom

And what it translated it as was: "I'm going to pop your pussy old school Turkish style"

Which is a WILD thing to say to someone by accident

#flight on queue #nutcracker nihongo #language library #translation #fuck ai

hailraykin-deactivated20230814

Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they're been going through

neokamui414

Big fan of a micro genre of video game that I like to call "Shintoism Simulator" .

Broadly speaking it comes in two flavors, playing as the actual Kami, or as a Miko/ Demon Slayer.

#currently playing okami and loving it so i might have to check out more of these!

I really wanna learn how to do something nice with my hair in June. Tired of having all this hair and just opting for pony tail/single braid/half pony all the time.

#chough chatterings

To do 31/05

One day weekend and a lot I want to do!

☑️ Order M-san's bday present ☑️ Make a workout plan/meal schedule for June ☑️ Take out recycling ☑️ Pay electric bill ☑️ Go through the social fund ☑️ Dishes ◻️ Clean the kitchen ☑️ Put away laundry ☑️ Clear the table ☑️ Hoover ☑️ Get started on application ☑️ Yoga (20 min x3) ◻️ Art ⏳ Catch up on Bakemesterskapet ◻️ Play Okami ◻️ Renshuu + kanji practice ☑️ Writing

#chough chatterings

have-you-been-here

Yuigahama Beach, Kamakura, Japan

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Remaining time: 2 days 23 hours

#yes!!!! i recognise this exact scenery! :D

lily-learns-finnish

I literally just found out another word for "omena" (apple) is "omppu", and another word for "banaani" (banana) is "bansku".

I learnt these from my children so I don't know if this is just something kids say.

linguini17

Also, pottu (peruna 🍑), tomsku (tomaatti🍅), aplari (appelsini🍊).

inseparabiles

And piparkakku -> pipari, jäätelö -> jätski.

Finnish speakers really look at our own words and go, you know what it's a good word, but now that I've considered it I've decided that we'll have as little of it as we can get away with from now on.