#by you're also like: CAN'T LET GRESHAM'S LAW WIN! and there's no salvage for the wretched

[meandmyechoes]

so someone’s working on a translation for the Ahsoka novel on the local forum and I found that it’s rather quaint for us in the Cantonese context to translate.

In standard education, there is a clear distinction between spoken (Cantonese) and written (Chinese), but there’s no rule against transcribing what one says as well, just with less familiar, sometime archaic letters. (and I wouldn’t know how much is internalized as ‘less elegant’ but I digress)

how the translation was handled, was very obviously, Cantonese dialogue plus written Chinese descriptors. (there is movement to revitalise written Cantonese in recent years along with local sentiment.) Regardless, it was rather necessary for the description to remain written Chinese as it’d be quite confusing to read ‘they’ all over the page, since the Cantonese pronoun is not gendered.

My attempt translating a script of The Phantom Apprentice already proved a challenging task. Yet I think there is some sort of shortcut translating into Cantonese than Chinese.

Because as a tonal language, emotions are marked with individual interjection at the end of the sentence. So adding a simple character could sum up the emotion quite conveniently without sieving for the right collocation within the sentence.

Anyway, I just love how smart ass we’re making them talk.

#language #P.S. forgot to say all the names and jargon can be kept in English too what a relief #and that's something you can ONLY do in hk #actually his (i think it's his) translation is a mess but the fight scenes aren't bad #HOW THE KRIFF DO YOU TRANSLATE she's alone something she was never meant to be #i was stuck for like four hours on I KNOW ANAKIN #myechoes #and you know how when i use chinese im MINIMALIST #i don't think i've written anything substantially. whole-heartedly. in chinese since the ryuki review two three? years ago #i did wrote an assignment last year but boy that was so much teenage rebellion #part 2: i don't think he's even gonna continue past the prologue but #that thing REALLY needs at least a copyedit #and i. at the heat of the moment. offered. but that was unwise. #and i kind of left him hanging whether i'd REALLY help him out #because right after our conversation an idiot bumped in and it was not just the usual sexist bullshit #they just. completely missed the point and spun the thread in another direction #and it just reminds me again how poor the level of reading comprehension and critical thinking that crowd is. #that i don't think they really deserve the attention and quality for something i'd be doing for free #and doesn't even require their validation to for a confidence boost #by you're also like: CAN'T LET GRESHAM'S LAW WIN! and there's no salvage for the wretched #i'd say i want to do it by myself it's not a worthy investment #:/