#23.7.2022

[devonjwerkheiser]

devonwerkharder “goededag”

[prosy-days]

July 23, 2022 - Day 34

Saturday shift, so here are my fun colored pens.

[puregrief]

So sorry I'm taking too much space and being such an inconvenience! Omg how could you ever bear me!

[translatingmcytintochinese]

One of my smaller issues with translating is when the content contain some sort of pun. Like, I cannot just transplant the conversation without certain contexts and slap a footnote at the end of it. (Well, technically, I can, but it would not be as fun.)

Examples of this as of typing that I can think of: “Tilly Death Do Us Part”, Gem’s name in ESMP 2 (thankfully, that is very easily resolved), anything in the context of translating the word “lore”

[translatingmcytintochinese]

Introduction 自我介紹

Hi, everyone. This is Aqua, or @minecraftrelatedrandomness, on a sideblog. This is intended to be a pet project to translate MCYT content in general, and not just DSMP, into Chinese. 

I originally considered it a spin-off to @dreamsmpinchinese, an older sideblog more dedicated to DSMP, but since making those posts, I have considered branching out into more extensive projects, hence this sideblog. Also, I have decided to make my tags and content more accessible to an English-speaking audience on this blog.

Content-wise, other than retranslations of DSMP, I may translate from any server that I am familiar with, including and not limited to Empires, the Traffic series, ALSMP, Lovely World, and Hermitcraft by proxy (I may get into the series in the future).

I mainly use Traditional Chinese on this blog because I grew up using it, but I can also read Simplified Chinese, so feel free to send me asks in either variant of written Chinese or just English.

大家好，我叫雅嘉，是住在香港的MCYT愛好者。這個部落格 (blog) 本來是 @dreamsmpinchinese 的衍生物 (spin-off)，但我現在的翻譯方式已變得比當時更靈活變通， 因此我再造了這個新的部落格，希望把MCYT更佳地翻譯成中文/漢語，讓其他說中文的人愛上它他們及其創作的內容。

我主要用英文/英語說MC或MCYT有關事情的部落是 @minecraftrelatedrandomness。

Translation Methods 翻譯方法

Language-wise, I will make a division between translating into Mandarin and Cantonese, or use a neutral variant that suits both. The reason behind this is because Cantonese is my mother tongue, but Mandarin is more widely spoken, so I try my best to find a balance between the two.

In terms of names, other than the linguistic divide, I may make two names or more for each person, at least a direct transliteration/translation and a Sinicized variant, mainly because the latter was the historical traditional method for translating that still continues to this day in Hong Kong, and I find it fun to do so.

Unlike the historical method, however, I prefer to use given names or screen-names as the basis for transliterating/translating names rather than the surnames, mainly because that is the persona us viewers are familiar with.

Another method I plan on using is giving the content creators and characters different names, especially if there is a greater disconnect between the two, to establish them as different people. This is something I did not do on my old blog, but frankly, this makes things more fun to me.

[puregrief]

النهارده قريت بوست وعرفت منه إنهم نرجسيين، ماشي يا سيدي نرجسي نرجسي بس موجود! مش قادرة أتحمل أفكاري والله خمس دقايق كمان! حاسة إني هخبط دماغي في الحيط والله!

[puregrief]

فين القلب اللي يقدر يستحمل كل ده والله؟

[puregrief]

يلعن كسم حظي والله😃