Is moving me, too! The graph is currently trending towards November 25-26, but he just started P&T. At 2.5 pages per day and 27 pages that's about 11-12 days. add in another three or four days for debugging and testing, so Nov 15-20 is still in the realm of probability.
Actually English is a difficulty rating 5. The main problem is the fluidity of the centuries. It is bad. Or is it BAD! What the hell does that mean? In German it is clear and not quite as chock full of slang or other languages as American English. One reason I studied German as I did Engineering. So much was written in German and it was precise. But, you are absolutely correct that L&P would need to scrutinize the translation for the intent.As someone who speaks German I'd argue it's actually the other way around, which could be the reason why L&P won't accept any help as he wants a native English speaker to translate the dialogue from German to English, and I doubt there's many people in this community who would be able to pull that off on a really high level, unless they really are professional with it. The issue I'm having with this is the fact that L&P's English is sufficient enough to translate it himself and then simply hand it to a native English speaking translator to pack the dialogue into a more...fancy way if you will.
That's atleast how I would do it. He could always point out some lines of text he doesn't like and try to explain what he has in mind. I feel like that would make this whole process alot easier and he might actually be able to find someone who could possibly translate everything within a couple days. But who knows. I'm not a game developer, nor a translator.
Edit: The first sentence in my post might be a bit confusing, lol. What I meant was that it's probably easier for a native German speaker to translate everything into English, instead of a native English speaker doing it as I believe the German language is harder to master. Still does sound kinda confusing reading it, but oh well.. I give up.
Please refer to previous posts in this thread. They are there.
Though I am thoroughly enjoying your work here it is better in the fan art thread. Thank you for sharing.
I have always been astounded at the women who can walk in those heels. More so when I was looking at my daughter eye to eye and I am 5 inches taller than her. My shoes had 1 inch heels so hers were 6 inch, holy s#!t.I know none of you are looking at her feet, but the cameraman must be carrying her flats, because there is no way she's walking in those heels. Between the height of the heel and those pants it would be a nightmare to move. Also, those heels look gorgeous and unused.
I know, I know, "Damnit GingerSweetGirl, who cares?! She's hot, look at that ass! Why are you being such a buzz kill?" Well, fine sirs, because when I look at that picture I want to wear those heels and those pants. I comfort myself that I'm not with the reasoning that wearing those is a form of torture. If I got paid to stand still and take pics, oh hell yeah I'd wear them, but as a practical piece of clothing that woman probably can't wait to get changed.
We need more games to include sweatpants!!
Ah, yes. I read the summary. An addendum had some fascinating elements.it’s okay I made the time leap
Well, you’re gonna be amazed
Sophia became a great guitar player so she rejected Sam, she is divorced and has an international career.
Ellie’s still a virgin, farrah had a breakdown
Alyssa electrocuted herself with Antonio, since KillJoys is inconsolable
Ava created a satanic cult and Brother Robert has a lot of work to exorcise all of this.
Patricia takes care of the animals at Carl’s zoo, but has still not understood the difference between carnivore and herbivore.
Liam became gay, he’s in a relationship with Neil, so Brother Robert is happy because Neil has a better treatment of his character
Amber drowned in a swimming pool crushed by a giant banana, so Julia became a lifeguard.
Dylan who loves his mother’s underwear so much changed sex, so he can wear them.
Sam died in a treehouse fire
I’ll stop here because I don’t want to spoil you too much.
PS Lord_Xanatos is out of work
. But neither "safe", "sheltered", "secure" nor "protected" expresses the word "geborgen" correctly. These words are too strong. "Geborgen" is a really warm word that implies love and trust. And all the other translated words don´t fit correctly.
If he works the weekends and stays at 5% each day, he will end on the 20th, but if he takes the weekends off, it will be towards the last week of the month. Also, I wonder if he will manage to have a couple of several 10% days in between?
just wonder if L&P has forgot this part of story... interested in the thug plot personally.
November
From the German definition that you explain with Geborgen. I would say the matching English word would be Embrace. But in order to use this word, Someone would need to look at the sentence structure and the context.Translating an erotic novella from German into English is not so easily done. There is a lot written about feelings and love in it. It would be just as difficult the other way around because there are simply words, phrases in German that you can't translate one-to-one into English. Because they simply don't exist. So you have to find similar words, phrases, that mean what you want to say in German.
Example. The word "geborgen" does not exist in English. "Geborgen" expresses that a person e.g. Sophia feels safe and secure in the strong arms of someone else e.g. Dylan
So L&P needs to change that word, that phrase. He needs a German word, a German sentence, which can be translated very well into English with the same expressiveness, with the same effect. And that takes time.
Much more complicated than I thought:Translating an erotic novella from German into English is not so easily done. There is a lot written about feelings and love in it. It would be just as difficult the other way around because there are simply words, phrases in German that you can't translate one-to-one into English. Because they simply don't exist. So you have to find similar words, phrases, that mean what you want to say in German.
Example. The word "geborgen" does not exist in English. "Geborgen" expresses that a person e.g. Sophia feels safe and secure in the strong arms of someone else e.g. Dylan
So L&P needs to change that word, that phrase. He needs a German word, a German sentence, which can be translated very well into English with the same expressiveness, with the same effect. And that takes time.
nobody really cares about the correctness of the dialogue.Much more complicated than I thought:
Berg- bergen-geborgen.
I thought the Germanic tribes were sure that a mountain (Berg) offered protection and hence: Berg-geborgen.
Why is it so complicated?
I have to disagree with you on this one and let me tell you why, one of my hobbies or passions are sneakers and i have a lot of them, so having more i pretty much wear everyday a different pair and when i come home i clean them and tose them back in their box (yeah i have their original box for each) so they tend to look new, i have 6 yrs old sneakers and when i wear them some ppl ask me if are new, i swear true story
I care for well written dialogues. I like to read them and actually like seeing well written sentences, for me they add a completely new level of appeal to the scene.
Right, and if you get too deep into it, we have: Sophia/Ava- educated women - we should find the Queen's English/slang free, different than between Aiden's gang members or Logan with his friends.
You were the first one to call how long this was going to be:
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This was years ago.
If I get support
Or maybe, just maybe.. the game could be launched in German and then update it with an english translation by L&P and his team of translators 20 days after.
