Magic, Pokémon, and Helping People

Hi! I'm CoffeeTime (he/him)! I like Games, Stories, People, and Learning things. Have a nice day! :D

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[caffichai]

Happy Pride Year to all who celebrate!

[literaryera]

I keep hearing John Green say he's retired from working and lemme just say John Green is the least retired retired person I've ever seen.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

I am retired!!! I retired in October of 2017 and have kept my promise not to exchange my labor for money.

Since 2017, I have only done stuff that I thought was interesting or useful regardless of whether it pays, because we have more than enough money, and despite what billionaires might tell you, there is literally no difference between "more than enough" and "much more than enough."

So I no longer work for money. But in retirement one must keep busy, which is why I have taken on an unpaid gig as the social media intern for a coffee and tea business that donates 100% of its profit to charity.

I also sometimes travel to universities and other places to speak in support of Partners in Health and global access to tuberculosis care, and sometimes I write books because writing makes me happy, and every Tuesday I make a video on vlogbrothers, and I make a podcast about the world cup with my friends from high school, and so on, but none of these things constitutes work. These are just Retirement Projects, which are essential to a happy retirement.

[carrot--cleric]

[alena-draws]

Wild boars ❤️🐽

[raptorific]

"what if the creators made a secret good finale but the studio buried it and released an intentionally bad finale instead, and if we lobby hard enough they'll release the real finale" is always the most insane fandom conspiracy theory but like. Let me tell you. LET ME TELL YOU. It was true one (1) time, and that's the only time it'll ever be true, and being on the internet when the Secret Good Finale actually dropped, and was actually good, and everybody but me and my friends had to eat crow? Legitimately felt like being King Of The World. I understand why every other fandom is always chasing that high but unfortunately Zack Snyder's Justice League will never happen again

[stealingpotatoes]

rereading your own fics/wips is a very slippery slope into finding out you actually have to finish your fics if you want them finished

[digi-lov]

If you don't support LGBT+ you don't get Digimon

imho

[cathianemelian]

Seth from french manga Radiant :)

[heyitscoffeetime]

I think a lot of people will appreciate this analysis:

[mistray-art]

a Pokémon a day keeps artblock away - #496 Servine

[kainorigin]

Killer Whale

[heyitscoffeetime]

What if the reason Batman is so cavelier about tearing up Gotham city is so that Bruce Wayne can pay for better infrastructure? Thinking about the post about Clark Kent & the lead pipes (we love Pipe Guy)

[aokozaki]

So much translation discourse just boils down to monolinguals not understanding that "coolness" doesn't translate across languages, and you need to re-add it manually on the other end.

[beforeliteracytherewasdeez]

Spanish and French understand the anglicism so just say "eso es muy cool" or "c'est très cool" if the context is not particularly formal

[aokozaki]

No no, not literally the word "cool" I mean the [concept of coolness]. Things that sound cool, poetic, funny, dramatic, etc in one language will completely fail to land if you simply go 1-to-1 word equivalents.

In the Japanese version of Fullmetal Alchemist, the antagonists are named after the seven deadly sins, in English. As in, rather than the Japanese word, "Greed" is still Greed in the original.

Because loan words from English are often pretty "cool", as with your Spanish and French example.

But this presents a problem, because, to give them a bit of flair, the antagonists are sometimes given a proper Japanese adjective along with their name, to make a sort of title of sorts.

"Greedy Greed"

The italicized part would be a Japanese adjective, and the bolded part is an English loanword. This is fine in Japanese, but would be totally nonsense in an English translation.

After all, it's common sense to keep the names the same, duh, and obviously the whole point of what you're doing is to translate the Japanese.

Greedy Greed. You cannot call him that.

You can't go 1-to-1. To keep the [concept of coolness], you have to identify what made the original cool, and then recreate it in the new language.

And here, we have a foreign word, and a native word, both meaning the same thing, paired together to give an antagonist a cool sounding title. So how do we do that in English.

Well, the seven deadly sins, being Christian and Catholic and all, have fancy names in Latin. Or well, they just sound fancy in English, because Latin was the language of intellectuals for a long long time.

And in fact, while we also have the word "greed", English has a fancier sounding word that means the same thing, but whose etymology comes from the fancy Latin. That might give a similar cool-loanword feeling, right?

Let's try it.

"Greed the Avaricious"

Oh yeah. That's definitely, undeniably, "cool".

[heyitscoffeetime]

An exerpt from William Shakespeare's "Eddie Van Halen":

Act 3, Scene 1

Van Halen: U2, Bono?

[bumblesteak]

A necromancer AND a gardener (5 year redesign) 🌸

[depsidase]