#fan english translation

[dkniade]

Translating Xiao’s “Hello” Voiceline

This line’s formal tone and word choice in particular makes him sound like an immortal figure in a xianxia drama. It’s hard to convey in English, but the best equivalent in English speech would be a bard character going all Shakespherean (so like, Fischl, I guess). I’ll include both a Shakespearean-esque rendition, and a base translation in prose.

Original and Renditions / Tone in the Different Languages / Translation Notes on Chinese Words and Idioms / Localizing It into Shakespearean English

Original

如遇失道旷野之难，路遭贼人之难，水火刀兵之难，鬼神药毒之难，恶兽毒虫之难，冤家恶人之难，便呼我名。

「三眼五显仙人」——「魈」，听召前来守护。

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My Rendition

Come pathless wilds or thievish tricks, crises grave or spirits vile, hidden beasts or mortal foes, call out my name. 

“The Mighty and Illuminated Adeptus”— Xiao, summoned hither to protect.

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Translation in Prose

Edit: the character 难 is better translated as “calamity” instead of “disaster”

If you encounter the disaster of losing your path in the wilderness, the disaster of running into thieves on roads, the disaster of natural calamities and war, the disaster of manipulative gods and poisonous medicine, the disaster of malicious beasts and poisonous insects, or the disaster of arch-nemeses and evil-doers, then call out my name. 

“The Mighty and Illuminated Adeptus”— “Xiao”, summoned here to guard you.

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Official Translation

If you awake to a knife at your throat, if monsters dig their claws into you, if death comes knocking at your door, call out my name. Adeptus Xiao. I will be here when you call.

Tone

Key Traits of Archaic Chinese Speech

uses few characters to express rich imagery 

descriptive four-character phrases are a giveaway 

implied subjects with limited use of pronouns or “I” or “you” 

results in a compact and poetic “less is more” style 

common speaking style for immortals (仙人) in xianxia dramas

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Key Traits in Chinese Voiceline

archaic Chinese 

extremely formal tone

lists off various intense, worst-case scenarios 

last line implies someone under a contract or code of honour (think wuxia escorts)

overall signifies he’s an Adepti due to his poetic speech (see above section)

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Key Traits in Official Translation

edgy

lists off some bad scenarios 

loyal

(kind of hard to take seriously)

The translation of this particular line did not do Xiao justice at all. The archaic tone is completely lost, the intense scenarios are watered down and replaced, and the last line forgoes his longer title along with his implied contract-abiding loyalty.

In addition, in his profile specifically (rather than quests), due to the voice acting, Xiao’s Chinese voice gives the image of a distant/cold and calm young man, while his English voice makes him sound like an edgy teenager. 

Words and Phrases

Edit: “[scenario]之难” is better translated as “the calamity of [scenario]” instead of “the disaster of [scenario]”

The Chinese line follows the format of “If you encounter the disaster of [scenario], [lists off six disastrous scenarios], then call my name. [Adeptal Title] — Xiao, [formal declaration of a summon to protect].” The scenarios are each a four-character phrase, followed by 之难 (“the disaster of~”).

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失道旷野之难

pinyin: Shīdào kuàngyě zhī nàn / Shi1dao4 kuang4ye3 zhi1 nan4

“The disaster of losing your path in the wilderness”

Man VS nature

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路遭贼人之难

pinyin: Lù zāo zéirén zhī nàn / lu4 zao1 zei3ren3 zhi1 nan4

lit. “The disaster of running into thieves on roads”

贼人 refers to thieves or bandits

likely alluding to Treasure Hoarders

Man VS man

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水火刀兵之难

Shuǐhuǒ dāobīng zhī nàn / Shui3huo3 dao1bing1 zhi1 nan4

“The disaster of natural calamities and war”

lit. “The disaster of blade-wielding soldiers of fire and water”

This one likely refers to the idiom 刀兵水火 (lit. “Blade-wielding soldiers and fire and water)

刀兵 refers to war; 水火 refers to natural disasters of floods and fires

Overall, natural and man-made calamities (idiom: 天灾人祸)

Man vs nature, man vs society

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鬼神药毒之难

Guǐshén yào dú zhī nàn / Gui3shen2 yao4 du2 zhi1 nan4

“The disaster of manipulative gods and poisonous medicine”

lit. “The disaster of demonic gods and poisonous medicines”

鬼神 refers to evil spirits, evil deities, etc 

Possibly alluding to the hatred of the fallen gods Xiao slayed, or perhaps manipulative deities?

药毒 can refer to medicine with poison in them, expired/low-quality medicine, or misusing medicine for a treatment. Generally, something bad with natural properties medicine

man VS nature (?)

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恶兽毒虫之难

È shòu dúchóng zhī nàn / E4 shou4 du2chong2 zhi1 nan4

lit. “The disaster of malicious beasts and poisonous insects”

恶兽 refers to dangerous or malicious animals or beasts (natural ones, not those of a magical nature)

毒虫 refers to poisonous insects

man VS nature

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冤家恶人之难

Yuānjiā èrén zhī nàn / Yuan1jia1 e4ren2 zhi1 nan4

“The disaster of arch-nemeses and evil-doers”

lit. “The disaster of enemies and evil people”

冤家 refers to an enemy or arch-nemesis

恶人 refers to evil/bad people, evil-doers, etc

man VS man

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三眼五显仙人

Sān yǎn wǔ xiǎn xiānrén / San1 yan3 wu3 xian3 xian1ren2

Localized as “mighty and illuminated adeptus”

lit.  "three eyes and five manifestations immortal”

(Info from HoYoverse’s Developer Insight on Xiao’s concept development) 

仙人 are “demigod-like ‘immortals’” in Daoism

“The ‘three eyes’ part of the adepti's title refers to the ‘third eye’ possessed by those with the ability to manipulate elemental energy”

In humans, Visions (神之眼, lit “Eye of God”) fulfill this purpose

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听召前来守护

Tīng zhào qián lái shǒuhù / Ting1 zhao4 qian2 lai2 shou3hu4

“Summoned here to guard [you]”

tone is similar to something like “Xiao, reporting for duty”

lit. “Heard the order to be summoned and came to guard [you]”

召 means “summon” (verb) as in “order (someone) to be present”

前来 means “to come”

守护 means “to guard” (compared to 保护 which is “to protect”)

Rendering It into Shakespearean English

There’s no way to truly capture the imagery and connotations invoked in Chinese, but a close localization would be to write it in Shakespearean English. The straight translation in prose is too long, and there’s no rhythm in it.

To recap, here’s information about Xiao which we can infer from his speech

States the absolute worst-case scenarios (ambush, war, natural disasters, evil deities and beasts, enemies, etc) as plausible reasons for being summoned

an Adepti (immortal in the xianxia genre) due to his formal speech 

last line implies someone under a contract or code of honour (think wuxia escorts)

Progress Rendition

“Come blinding wilderness or thievish paths, [水火刀兵], malicious spirits, fatal insects or mortal enemies, call out my name. Adeptus Xiao, summoned hither to protect.” Summoned hither at thy behest.

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I rendered it like so:

Come pathless wilds or thievish tricks, crises grave or spirits vile, hidden beasts or mortal foes, call out my name. 

“The Mighty and Illuminated Adeptus”— Xiao, summoned hither to protect.

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“pathless wilds or thievish tricks”

“the disaster of losing your path in the wilderness, the disaster of running into thieves on roads”

“crises grave or spirits vile”

“the disaster of natural calamities and war, the disaster of manipulative gods and poisonous medicine”

“hidden beasts or mortal foes”

“the disaster of malicious beasts and poisonous insects, or the disaster of arch-nemeses and evil-doers”

“summoned hither to protect”

“Summoned here to guard [you]”

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Meter

Iambic tetrameter (unstressed-stressed 4x, or x / x / x / x /) for the first part

(e.g. come PATHless WILDS or THIEvish TRICKS)

Catalectic trochaic tetrameter (stressed-unstressed 4x with last syllable missing, or / x / x / x / ) for the next two parts

(e.g. CRIses GRAVE or SPIrits VILE)

#fan translation #genshin impact #xiao #chinese #wuxia #fan english translation #adeptus xiao #translation #english translation #Genshin translation #原神 #魈 #Shakespearean #genshin xiao #genshin impact xiao #vigilant yaksha #护法仙人

[psychictimestone]

Thinking about Silver and the references to his love of (blue) skies 🔵☁️

#silver the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #Sonic Forces #Sonic colors DS #mario and sonic at the olympic games #Sonic 06 #the last ones translated from the Japanese side of forces if anyones wondering why its diff from the english line #This all started because I was curious about the JP side of forces lol #also the text with silver and blaze is from Otherworld Comedy aka the 2023 calendar stories #its a very cute detail #if you wanna read the 2023 calendar i'll leave a link in the replies to a really great fan website that has them all translated into english

[ato-dato]

Spent an hour of my day just sitting together with my sisters and my mum showing each other gomens edits. Both sad ones and thirst traps. Family bonding time.

My mum also has fanart of aziracrow kissing on her phone home screen. And today she said sometimes she just stares at it longingly. Shes in her 3rd rewatch of s2 as well.

#She's David Tennants Nr. 1 fan Im telling you #And can you blame her #Honestly I think if we sent her a fanfiction to read she'd do it #But she doesn't speak English. Sadly. #Anyway #If you know of a good gomens fanfic that's been translated into German #Hit me up #good omens 2 #Good omens #Atospeaks

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Why would you—That's not—I just wanted to ask for help, why did you have to go and make it awkward???

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #xue yang #Its such a relief to not have to draw so many characters once again. #Redrawing the specific font from the English translated mdzs books was surprisingly fun! #Maybe I'm alone in this...but I think characters switching to a different font of speech for *emphasis* is peak comedy #you can't communicate voice changes of sound very well in non audio forms so this is the best I can do. #Anyways...rip Xue Yang. You finally meet your idol and he brushes you off #Rather— he doesn't live up to the expectations you built in your head #Kind of an on going issue there Jester (I refuse to call him king or sir) #XY is constantly making people out to be the versions he needed them to be to feel justified in his actions #but struggles to pivot when confronted with the fact that these ppl are *more* than just one surface reading! #wwx doesn't actually think xy is flirting. He's just tired of all the fake fans + wants to get out of this convo. #button mashing the A button to skip the unskippable cutscene #Lan Wangji is in the next comic btw. I've missed him dearly. I'm sorry he's been gone so long </3 #edit: poorly spelt MDZS strikes again. This is why I need more time to write my comics. So I can actually proofread B*( #edit2: I cast 'Power of Technology' and fixed my error. Everyone reblog this version instead please

[ganondoodle]

so im not sure if anyones interested, but, i went through quite a bunch of totk critiques by people who were also very disappointed with it and thought id share my favorite videos i found (granted, i only really wachted those that youtube recommened and its mostly .. white men... things like the orientalism problem are not mentioned at all for example, maybe ill update this post if i find any more diverse voices)

i dont agree with every single point and also dont know most of the channels (aside from the big zelda theory guys) so i judged solely by what they mentioned in those videos and the quality of it (like the audio .. bc i cant listen to bad audio)

in no particular order, also they talk about or use footage of the literal ending stuff so if you arent done with the game yet, better leave these for now

(the following one is a podcast thing by multiple zelda theory guys, there some stuff you can skip at the start thats just kidna random things, but the video is marked with chapters)

(theres some mention of some things not making sense, like the sonau only being two, and ithink thats kinda bc the english translation was weirdly vague about that, in the german version its much more directly said that they all died out and only rauru and mineru were left of them;

also mentions of how unfitting it is to call the enigma stones "secret"stones in english might come from a similar thing; in german they where called "Mysterienstein" which would be translated as mystic/mysterious/enigma- stone

just wanted to mention that since the vast majority are gonna play it in english only and the stuff online is also dominated by english)

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #totk #ganondoodles rants #not really #but it kinda fits in the theme #some things are a lil too complainy for complainings sake #but overall those are the ones i felt spoke about alot of the broader problems #Youtube #also i dont ... like the english translations of these games #and im not a fan of the english voice acting either tbh #idk whats with zelda in particular #and i dont want to shit on translators #but man #some weird translation choices have done active damage in the whoe lore department #plus its jsut kinda .. weird and unecessary at times #why call it gloom?? miasma sound way more connected to malice and actually menacing #secret stones??? why?? mystic or engima is right there plus its confusing bc they .. are not secret at all?? #makes stuff complicated too bc im using the words i know but in english almost every name is totally different #why not ... keep the names of the og japanese?? #i know german is guilty of changing stuff too #but my point stands

[magistralucis]

pronouncing the necron 'sz': personal rating list*

broke: /s/ only ('seras')

woke: /z/ only ('zeras')

provoke: /s/ and /z/ pronounced separately ('s-ze-ras')

bespoke: /ʂ/ or /ʃ/ ('scheras')

invoke: tensed fricative /s͈/ ('sseras')

misspoke: /s/ but evil ('ßeras')

(* Further notes in tags.)

#warhammer 40k #wh40k #necrons #illuminor szeras #necron #shitpost #german speakers i am so sorry you had to read that with your eyes 😂 i also speak german i do know eszetts can't start words #originally this was just for fun but it seems there are quite a lot of ways wh40k fans pronounce this #native english speaking fans usually seem to stick to 's' #whereas in languages that actually use this digraph it would be s/ʂ/ʃ #but in korean translations 'sz' defaults to 'z' so it's definitely 'zeras (제라스)' and 'zarekh (자렉)' #and sometimes the 's' and 'z' are both present and pronounced like in japanese ('s-za-rekh';スザーレク) #(i personally use ʃ because it seems the logical compromise) #in lore terms i think all or most of those pronunciations were used among the necrontyr and there is not one 'canon' version #variety is the spice of life it's fine they're all good. well maybe not the last one but still 😂 #according to TDK the necrontyr didn't have a united language until szarekh came along so they must've had different dialects #i reckon that's why the silent king made his universal language. so people could pronounce his name how HE specifically wanted it #it's all becoming so clear now!!!! 😬

[cyellolemon]

An akam comic about time and healing :)

(left to right)

#Hmm if there is any french detco fan here #i need you to know that the lines are an english translation of the song J'aimerais tellement (Jena Lee) #sometimes autism makes you mix you fav media and a trendy song from 2009 #but it actually fits Whiskey Trio so well i swear #i'm a bit!!! wooehhh about all of that.. don't mind me okk #furuya rei #akai shuichi #amuro tooru #akam #whiskey trio #detective conan #detective conan fanart #dcmk #my art #fanart #comic

[fearandhatred]

i really don't know what 'i love you' means. i think it means, 'don't leave me here alone.'

<3

you know it's serious when you start pulling out the kpop song lyrics... caption quote by neil gaiman himself and song by got7

#fearandhatred #fearandedits #these are the only good lyrics from that song's english translation LMAOOO #please don't search it up. just listen to the song without knowing what it says i promise you're better off #anyway it makes me sad. got7 fans would know #enjoy #good omens #good omens season 2 #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #good omens edit #THIS IS A QUEUED POST. i am asleep

[zishuge]

+ bonus Lingling honest reaction:

My judgement is right after all. If her brother is like this, then Baijie must be even kinder and more compassionate than you. The Spirealm 致命游戏 (2024) | Ep. 27

#the spirealm #致命游戏 #kaleidoscope of death #ruan nanzhu #ling jiushi #li dongyuan #xia zhiguang #huang junjie #liu xiaobei #cdrama #cdramasource #kodedit #userhanyi #*gifs:mine #huge fan of whatever is going on between these three QUITE HONESTLY #the way lingling's caught somewhere between slightly amused and absolutely disgusted with them #translation notes: in chinese nanzhu actually says “your little mouth is so sweet” but it basically means you're a sweet talker #it is also a lot less sexually charged in chinese than the literal translation is in english lol #i've given up on coloring i'm just replacing the garish yellow filter with a slightly less garish red one

[treasurechestsubs]

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[the-foley-knoll-horror]

Listen nostalgia's not inherently bad. People act like it is and it does make you do stupid things but it's fine. You can't buy a product and recapture your youth but you can appreciate old stuff in new light, and you do get to spend just a little bit of time in your youth.

#also I think I'm high so I apologize for my weird rambling #also I bought Front Mission 1st and am getting such a rush to back when I figured out how to play Japanese SNES roms in english #Front Mission was the first fan translation rom I ever played I think #I loved Front Mission 1 and 3 #They were both formative games for me in ways I can't explain

[thegreatkarma]

fast forward to five to six years later:

“all im saying is the strongest demigod in our generation is right here, and it’s not me. you should’ve asked annabeth to train you”

#sorry if i got the citation wrong i have only read the book once years ago in my first language #which is not english #so i went by memory and tried to translate it #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #percy and annabeth #the lighthing thief #magnus chase #percy has always been annabeth’s number one fan

[charlescherie]

“charles mi hai rubato il cuore come a te hanno rubato l’orologio, all’improvviso”

“charles you stole my heart like they stole your watch, out of nowhere”

#the way he goes #charles ........🧐🧐🤨🤨🤨🤨😊☺️☺️☺️😆😆🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 #and he then looks up at the fans like COME ONNNNNNN #i hate him #but whoever made that banner. i love you. #(sorry to the italians for the inaccurate translation of all'improviso...... 'suddenly' didn't feel like the right word in english lol) #HIS FACE HIS GIGGLE HIS LAUGH HIS SMILE IM INSANE #im going insane at 2:53am someone HELP #okay i'll shut up now #charles #charlie bee #charles leclerc

[incornarei]

fishers of men 🎣✨

#saint young men #saint oniisan #sym #artists on tumblr #*saint young men jumpscare* hi #volume 21 just released 🎉 now im just waiting for kodansha to announce the english translation #this is a panel redraw from the beginning of chapter 59! my favoritest guys #this wasnt gonna be this involved originally but yknow #ive reached the point where im just fussing over it so im just gonna post it now #hello to all six of us sym fans on tumblr #my art

[ganondoodle]

i know the internet is super english centered but i wish it was more common to mention the language whenever theres talk about a voice actor too, just say "the english voice actor of xyz"? that cant be too hard to do right??

i wish there was more appreciation for non-english voice actors!! in english spaces as well as in general! i know the names of many of the english cast for zelda even though i dont like any of them and have never set my game to it but know them simply bc they are the only ones getting any mention and they are always just called "the voice of" making it seem like that is THE one and only voice

im aware that its in part bc i am mostly in english speaking online spaces and the internet IS a very english centered thing but i dont think its wrong to wish for more recognition of other actors for languages other than english or to simply want them to mention to what language they are the actor of

like i dont mean that you gotta talk about every single different voice actor but i think just mentioning it like that more directly implies that there ARE others at all, especially since alot of games dont even do other voices at all and just make english the only voice over even if the game was developed by non-english people, i just find it sad :(

#ganondoodles talks #random #i find it sad and slightly annoying #perhaps influenced a little by me not being a fan of the english translation of zelda and neither of that voice over? #perhaps so #but also in general id like to hear more about other languages even in english news #since its all so english centered #i know its a weird thing to get hung up on but #man #the japanese sounded great to me but i dont speak it despite trying to learn so idk the actual quality #but the german in largely pretty good #better than english at least #like im sorry im sure there are roles for all of those voice actors that suit them #but not these #especially zelda

[etrosgate]

it's so nuts that most modern danganronpa fans likely don't even know about dr zero, when back in the day everyone had either read it or knew that they should

#my post #i guarantee this is because of the shift from when being a fan usually meant a degree of ''illegal'' consumption of fan translations #to dr being something you can very easily play in english through easily obtained official sources #while dr0 has never been official localized. even though it REALLY FUCKING SHOULD HAVE BEEN #danganronpa