#spanish ask!

[juantheashura]

Holaaaaa, me gustó tu historia!! Está cool la trama y los libros de superheroes siempre son mis favoritos c: tengo 2 pgtas, la primera es ¿cuantos libros van a ser? Y la 2da es ¿está confirmado que Forlorn será un RO en el 2do libro? Bueno besitos para ti autor muak

<3 Me alegra mucho escuchar eso! Que bueno que hayas disfrutado la historia, es un cumplido gigantesco.

En total van a ser tres libros. Hasta ahora estos son los subtitulos:

"Return of the King", "The Lost World", y "The Founder's War" (ojo que no están en orden).

Y segundo, sí, Forlorn va a ser un RO en el 2do libro, está confirmado. Pase un buen tiempo considerandolo, pero mientras más... bueno, mientras más me metía en su cabeza para escribirlo y eso, me fui dando cuenta de que un romance con Forlorn sería muy, muy bonito (y triste con cojones. Ese pobre hombre necesita muchos abrazos...).

#a tale of heroes #ask me anything #wip ask #anon ask #ro ask #spanish ask!

[dudethatsmyundeaduncle]

Had this Headcannon that when Multi-Lingual Dick and Jason get drunk they start singing Ballads in Spanish. Yeah some classical shit like Vicente Fernandez but also the most wild Selena you've ever heard.

#is this a post about Latinx Jason todd? Bitch it might be #Don't ask me about it tho cuz I'll deny it to my core #I imagine jason drunk off his ass belting No Me Queda Mas like he fuckin wrote the song #Dick's got Como la Flor Energy but he has ugly Sobbed NMQS too #they are so infamous for their drunk spanish ballads that they actually rub off on TIm #imagine young justice suprise when the whitest kid you've ever seen wasted on 7/11 liquor is hiccuping his way through a selena song #worst accent you've ever heard sounds like a dog from New Jersey learning to bark and yet the emotion is kinda on point #TIm denies it #refuses to believe he has ever done it #Dick and Jason get a copy of the video and someone edits a mash up of all three of them warble singing that banger #anyway this was a nothing post of nothing I made for myself #fr just for me #DC #Batman #Batfam #Jason todd #Tim drake #Dick Grayson

[fluffypotatey]

okay so:

the year is 2021. the month is june. the new season of hermitcraft, season 8, has just started, and everything is great! the hermits are all messing around, having fun, building insane things within the first week of the server being active, and generally having a good time. everyone's collected themselves into little factions, pranking each other, and it's all the fun, lighthearted, mostly-vanilla content hermitcraft is known for.

and then the split between minecraft versions 1.18 and 1.19 is announced. the delay of new terrain, and especially of new mobs like the warden, considerably disrupt several of the hermits' plans. but it's fine, they'll figure something out, they're professionals, and it mostly goes unnoticed.

about two weeks later, on november 9th, grian turns to mumbo jumbo in one of his episodes, and asks the famous question that would seal hermitcraft season 8's fate:

"mumbo, is the moon... big?"

suddenly, the fans panic. they search back through videos and streams, and realize that the moon had been abnormally large and stuck in a full-moon phase since october 30th. the Moon Big event has begun.

this is where the roleplay really starts. once the moon's size has been brought up, the hermits start a weird combination of scrambling to figure out why the moon's growing, and how to stop it- but also of ignoring it, hoping it won't be a problem, hoping someone else will deal with it. the moon keeps getting bigger, more hermits start realizing it's going on, and a creeping sense of dread starts to grow. but it's fine. it's fine, right? they do little plotlines like this all the time. they'll figure something out, the moon will go back to normal, and we'll laugh about it when this is all over. it's fine.

and then, blocks start flying away. just floating up out of the ground, and falling right back down! like for a moment, a square meter chunk of dirt has decided it's a ballerina and leaped out of the ground! but it's fine, right? the blocks are coming back. no lasting harm is done. they're going to fix it all... right?

the moon gets bigger. it's growing every day- local hermit weirdguy joe hills measures it every stream. the blocks start flying higher. gravity starts getting... weird, with players getting the slow falling effect at random, and being lifted off of the earth themselves. the players form cults and rituals and whatnot to try and appease the moon, convince it to leave them alone, making plans to escape. nothing works. things keep getting worse, and the moon keeps getting bigger. but it'll be fine. these storylines never leave lasting harm, or at least they never have before. they'll be fine.

and then the blocks stop coming back, just floating into the sky forever. the players have the slow falling effect more than they don't now. the moon is now so big it's visible even during the day, and fills the entire sky at night. they start planning their escapes in earnest, and say their goodbyes. some hermits jump into a void hole in the overworld (it was the centerpiece of their village). some flee to the End, some to the nether, some just fly with elytras and hope they can get far enough away in time. one brave hermit, tango, flies himself to the moon in a futile attempt to blow the whole thing up before it can crash.

but in the end, the moon crashes into the server, and everything they'd built was destroyed. and the whole time, there'd been nothing any of them could've done. season eight was over, a full six months before anyone had expected it to end, and season nine wouldn't start until about three months later. and im still not okay about it.

(here's a cool animatic of the moon's crash! honestly i dont think you need too much hermitcraft knowledge to get the gist)

(also the moon crash happened on the day before my birthday lmao.)

….

holy shit

#ok ok let me see if i have the timeline correctly: #1) s8 begins in June and so does the new update announcement #2) months go by with no issue (that they’re aware of) #3) it’s in November when they realize the moon has been growing #4) does the moon crash in January??? #but gawddam #that is one apocalypse story if I’ve heard of one #also fitting bc i think it was 2021 where we were getting a LOT of asteroid/moon fall movies #idk what was in the air (possibly the pandemic that led to unforced isolation & ppl coped with apocalypse stories) #and somehow that bled through to a Minecraft server???? somehow????? #wild #this also reminds me of an apocalypse movie i watched with a friend called ‘3 Días’ #very good movie btw #highly recommend (it is a Spanish only film which i don’t think will be an issue bc subtitles) #anyway #asks #smp 101 with gumy #hermitcraft edition!

[reality-detective]

This was a famous Spanish model Gabriela Rico Jimenez, who was invited to an Illuminati party, screaming in front of a luxury hotel. She repeatedly pleads for her freedom, and claims she was held against her will.

She also made claims of murder and cannibalism, and drops some very big names in her accusations. 

The main problem in the brainwashed society that we live in, is that nobody will believe you if you say those things and especially if your freaked out about it they will call you nuts and lock you up. 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #spanish actress #you decide

[macbeth-s]

foreign guy on the ship in 1899 monologuing abt their tragic past & trauma vs the other guy who didn't understand a single word said cause it was all in another language & they're just running off of vibes

#1899 #1899 spoilers #when the danish spanish french german english guy has been talking for 20 minutes #but you just asked where the bathroom was 🤡🤡 #im happy for you or sorry that happened #myedit

[nunalastor]

Alastor's got the same reputation as the Duolingo owl, people are scared shitless of him to the point it's a meme he embraces in full.

Plot twist: Alastor IS the Duolingo owl.

#hazbin hotel #alastor #nunalastor asks #that reminds me i need to do my spanish

[pixlokita]

(Quiero revivir esta parte del AU) Como reaccionara Cassie en (Ball pit AU) a Gregory con alas

😔✨💖

#pix answers #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #fnaf security breach #winged Gregory AU #Gregory #Cassie #aaaaaaa #lmao #well it’s the obvious thing to assume #I forgot the ask was in Spanish 😭 #Bsjsbdkdndn #disculpe es que mezclo los idiomas en my cerebrito (/ =ω=)/

[temeyes]

Random but I just dreamt of Soap being a taho vendor

huy mare, let's be real. Soap would be a conyo-ass taho vendor.

(non-filos, here's a [vid] so you'd get what i mean by "conyo" HSAHSHASH)

#“Conyo” in Filipino refers to peeps born into English-speaking families btw #also i know it means different in Spanish!! please don't kill me HSAHSHSHSH #answered asks #samyurice #my art #2024 #call of duty #cod #soap cod #soap mactavish #johnny soap mactavish

[blakbonnet]

you had one queer disabled character and yall killed him ✋

actually i think Izzy has always been a figment of Ed's imagination like Badminton was to Stede - it was supposed to be a parallel - and Izzy was never a real character, he's a manifestation of everything Ed hates about himself come to life in the form of all things he despises and loathes - the palest of white people, loud and boorish, a bully through and through, and the fact that he only found his queer joy at the exact moment Ed and Stede made love is testatemnt to this theory, and he died when Ed no longer needed a ghost substitute of his father, in this Ted talk i will-

#asks #anonymous #literally don't even #i could riff all day 🙃 #wee John is canonically disabled #as is black Pete #AND MOST IMPORTANTLY ED #Spanish Jackie too and there's Lucius

[kenjo-arts]

By demand of my friends

#farfadream #??? is the tag??? #c!dream #c!awesamdude #farfadox #kenjos art #dsmpshipping #????? I THINK???? #c!awesamdream #shout out to ro for getting me 'he asked for no potatoes' in spanish though lost

[varilien]

For the triggun holloween requests, vash and wood couple costumes

ive gotten the suggestion for vashwood morticia and gomez a few times which is great cuz ive been thinking forever about it purely for the "speaks french x speaks spanish" of it all fhdjdjd

#trigun #trigun anime #trigun fanart #vash #vash the stampede #wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #vashwood #asks #muerder-snail #halloween #french is fucking cringe but ive never not been thinking about vash saying ONE SINGLE WORD OF IT #all he says is ''maman'' and my head is FILLED with thoughts of his education #meanwhile my woof speaking spanish headcanon is overly specific #i don't think he's conversant at all i think he mostly recalls phrases and terms of endearment from his childhood #he keeps that pretty close to his chest tho. it's SPECIAL when he sings in spanish #o se refiere a él como mi corazón o mi querida o lo que sea #<- not conversant either dhdhdjsj #also guarantee for these costumes vash took a page from drag and padded his hips that man has NO CURVES #FLATTEST ASS GOD COULD DEVISE that shit is SANDED

[juantheashura]

Juaaan...¿Que tienen que ver los caciques con Forlorn? No me hagas buscar los libros del bachillerato 😖

(I'll be doing a transcript below for those of you that don't know Spanish below the reply, don't worry!)

Ay, ¡alguien que los reconoció a simple vista! c': Qué emoción, de verdad esperaba que alguien entendiese la referencia de quiénes son, creo que es una de las partes más importantes de la comisión.

Pero bueno, para responder tu pregunta: Algo que me gusta hacer con las comisiones es agregar detalles que sirven de 'pistas' o 'comentarios' para la trama que concierne al personaje en la pieza. Por ejemplo, nota los aretes que Victoria e Ignis tienen en sus piezas, que Seeker y Victoria llevan literalmente la misma chaqueta (y nota el logo en la cerveza de Seeker y la portada del libro), la *tiara* que Ignis lleva en la suya, el brazalete que Aki tiene (que dice P.A, que es su 'trabajo', al igual que la de Forlorn, que dice M.C. se refiere a su rango- 'Major Commander') y el collar que ella tiene puesto (en especial el color del mismo).

Así que... las cintas VHS con Caonabo y Hatüey, dos Caciques que murieron luchando contra la colonización Española, son una pista de la trama y el backstory que concierne a Forlorn.

Te juro que no le pasó nada malo, okay? 😃

-----------------

Oh, finally, someone who recognized them immediately! c': I'm really happy, I was hoping someone would understand the reference to who they are, I think it's one of the most important parts of the commission.

To answer your question, though:

One thing I like to do with commissions is add details that serve as 'hints' or 'comments' about the plotline concerning the character in the piece. For example, notice the earrings that Victoria and Ignis have on their pieces, that Seeker and Victoria are literally wearing the same jacket (and notice the logo on Seeker's beer and book cover), the *tiara* that Ignis wears on hers, the bracelet that Aki has (which says P.A, which refers to her 'job', just like Forlorn's, which has M.C, referring to his rank- 'Major Commander') and the necklace she is wearing (the shape is important, but its color is the main thing).

So... the VHS tapes with Caonabo and Hatüey, two Caciques who died fighting against the Spanish colonization are a clue to the plot and backstory concerning Forlorn.

I swear nothing bad happened to him, okay? 😃

#forlorn ask #foreshadowing? #he's ok i swear #hints! hints everywhere! hints for everyone! #anon asks #spanish ask!

[driftsart]

*gives Ultra Mangos a lil kiss on the forehead*

(that's how we nickname him in the hispanic side of the fandom xD)

This is all I could think about lmfao I love this silly template 😭

#Oh I didn't know they called him Ultra Mangos in the Hispanic side of the fandom and I speak Spanish :0 #au #digitalart #transformers #art #photoshop #character design #ask #ask post #autobots #ultra magnus

[vashtijoy]

Idk if you’ve talked about this before, but in the event where ren and akechi are playing that shooting game together there is a very funny interaction and my fellow shuake fans and I are unsure what it means.

In English, Akechi jokes that he’s practicing gunplay to take ren out. Clearly this could either be a murder joke or a date joke. In Spanish, he apparently uses a phrase that can only mean a date.

What does he say in japanese? Was it ambiguous there too or was it clearly a murder joke or date joke? Again, sorry if you already explained it lol

…also this is kinda awkward but was the usage of the term gunplay intentional or does it have multiple meanings and fanfic has just ruined me orrr…

Hello! I am so happy to be able to go over this with you. Many thanks to @platinumdream, @minkhollow42, @somethingpersonarelated and the r/spanish subreddit for verifying this one for me.

This line stands out because the Japanese and English (and also the Spanish) translations are all radically different—different enough that what we have here is a stellar example of "the Xerox effect".

Let's take a look.

the scene in japanese

Akechi 気付いた? そうだよ、いつか君も懐に忍ばせたこれで⋯ kizuita? sou da yo, itsuka kimi mo futokoro ni shinobaseta kore de... [lit. you noticed? that's right, some day <see below>...]

Let's take a quick look at the grammar of this line, which I think is dual-meaning in Japanese just as it was in English (and if any of this seems like bullshit please get in touch, as it never ends well when I try to produce sentences of my own):

Akechi does not finish this sentence—he's left off the verb. So, as often happens with him, his meaning is ambiguous. Let's take the obvious one first:

いつか君も懐に忍ばせたこれで【ある】 itsuka kimi mo futokoro ni shinobaseta kore de [aru] Some day you, too, will have one of these concealed in your pocket.

Short and sweet: "I carry one of these, concealed, and some day you will too". Note that there's nothing here about practicing, as there is in the English.

But there's another possible meaning here:

いつか君も懐に忍ばせたこれで【撃ってあげる】 itsuka kimi mo futokoro ni shinobaseta kore de [utte ageru] Some day I'll [shoot] you, too, with this thing concealed in my pocket.

WELP. Like I say, I'm not entirely sure, but I do think the strong likelihood is that this dual meaning exists in Japanese.

I should say I don't think there's necessarily a suggestion here that he carries an illegal gun (though since Naoto has one in P4, it's very possible)—I think it's a metaphorical pocket, his inventory in the Metaverse.

Though I don't think this is really what's going on, there are also a startling number of idioms with futokoro that suggest embracing....

but what is the futokoro?

Idiomatically speaking, 懐 futokoro often translates pretty cleanly as "pocket". But something else is going on: your futokoro is explicitly your breast pocket.

Originally, it was the flap in the front of your kimono where you tucked things away. And so it also appears in a lot of idioms relating to the bosom, or the heart. 懐に飛び込む futokoro ni tobikomu is to throw yourself into someone's arms. 懐に入る futokoro ni hairu, for instance, means to worm your way into someone's affections, or to win someone's confidence—sound familiar at all?

But there's something else going on, of course, with Akechi concealing a weapon in his breast pocket:

Yep. Here's the payoff for this line in rank 5. Akechi tucks that silencer away in his breast pocket—just like he told Joker he would. And then he laughs. So did he know at rank 5 that this was going to happen, or did he bring this up for some other reason? Well, you decide.

By the way, here's Joker's question about gunplay:

Joker 撃ち慣れてる? uchi nareteru? Are you used to gunplay?

The Japanese just means "Are you used to shooting guns?"—I'm not sure it has any of the more, er, fanfic connotations of the English "gunplay". @specterthief agrees there doesn't seem to be any innuendo to the Japanese line.

the scene in english

Akechi: Ah, you noticed? Well, I'll need as much practice as I can get if I'm going to take you out.

Let's look at what's happening here, because it happens very often. Like much of Akechi's dialogue, this line in rank 5 was originally a double entendre—it has a very obvious, and relatively innocuous, meaning, but if you squint, you can see Akechi is hinting at something far less innocuous.

Wordplay of this kind takes a lot of time, thought and skill to translate. So what happens in practice is that the translator has to choose one meaning to put front and centre. The English translator has decided, very reasonably, that Akechi's implied "I will kill you" is more important than the joke about the concealed weapon.

To be clear, this was probably the right call. I love the relative subtlety of the Japanese and the 11/20 callback, but it's important that people playing the game understand what's going on—even if, over here in blorboland, it's clear that He Would Not Fucking Say That.

the scene in spanish

Do sit down.

Akechi: ¿Te has dado cuenta? Bueno, tengo que practicar todo lo que pueda si quiero invitarte a salir.

Now, I need to be as up front as I can possibly be about the fact that I do not speak Spanish. But I know a lot of people who do, and they have responded with one voice:

...

"Ask you out"? "ASK YOU OUT"?????

This is what is meant by "the Xerox effect".

We start in Japanese, with the relatively subtle "I have a concealed weapon", which becomes "I'm going to shoot you with a concealed weapon" if you think about it a little more. Then, in English, we become more blatant, with "take you out" having the up front meaning that Akechi will shoot Joker; rather than being subtext, it's now the point of what he's saying. And it's introduced something new—the alternate alternate meaning, of "take you out [on a date]".

It is possible that the Japanese line has a third meaning, very similar to this reading of "take you out"—you would have to torture the context here to get dating from the English, in the same way you'd have to torture the Japanese to get embracing from it.

But there's no torture in the Spanish. Oh, no. Spanish Akechi, as they say, just fucking goes for it. and why the hell not.

but what happened here?

The Spanish localisation is an indirect translation, translated not from the Japanese original, but from the existing English translation. It retains any and all errors in the English script because of this. And when the Spanish translator looked at this line of Akechi's, they saw not the original Japanese dual meaning, the one the English translator saw, but the one the English translator introduced—the dual meanings of the English "take you out".

And the Spanish translator, again, had to choose which of Akechi's seeming dual meanings to keep. Should they keep the line about shooting Joker? Or should they keep the line about taking Joker on a date?

Just like photocopying a photocopy, detail and accuracy are progressively lost, and errors accumulate. Of course, these indirect translations are not without their positives—translating from English allows for a far wider range of translations to be done quicker and more cheaply. Without them, far fewer languages would see official translations at all.

Also, it's really funny and that Spanish translation is a gift.

revision history

click here for the latest version.

v1.1 (2024/01/11)—confirmed no innuendo on uchi nareteru.

v1.0 (2024/01/10)—first posted.

#asks #persona 5 #p5 meta #translation #japanese language #spanish language #(what) #shuake #goro akechi #ren amamiya

[reality-detective]

* * * History Lesson * * *

1918 Spanish flu experiment gone horribly wrong - Injecting bacteria and vaccine shedding… 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think for yourselves #think about it #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #ask yourself #question everything #spanish flu #medical malpractice #medical experimentation #world history #history lesson #american history #history

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Los Chicos Peleandoooooo

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #song lan #xue yang #I know it makes jokes less funny if you explain them but I feel like I gotta for this one: #xue yang’s Spanish here is playing on the fact he’s a beginner (using a commonly taught phrase) #combined with the fact that he’s clearly taking what he’s heard Xiao Xingchen use. #of course XY would want to know how to cuss someone out in another language. Do you think XXC would teach him how? Nope. #XY would ask ‘How do I to someone I really hate them?’ #and XXC would say ‘You tell them ‘Te Amo Mucho’ :•)’ #As FAR as XY is concerned he knows *so* many swears. These words are just terms of endearment. #XXC would not swear or cuss anyone out but he *would* punctuate phrases with general terms of endearment. #More so directed towards A-Qing but Xue Yang has been proven to be a decent indirect learner. #That said he has also been shown to Not Quite Get The Nuances (consequences of observational learning). #Sadly he never had a good observational model for love or compassion B*( #Spanish speakers please oh god please correct me if I biffed something badly here. I can fix it.