palmtrees89

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maybe translation could be outsourced. Possibly fans would offer to do it for free.
They would. There have been several people offering their help in every way possible, but L&P simply doesn't want to outsource anything. L&P himself has asked for a translator here before, but it's been mostly just a big hoax. He's received e-mails from people and atleast one actual professional translator among them, but guess what? He ignored the e-mails, then came here trying to tell us that there's nobody up to the task. There are several "theories" on the reasoning behind that, but it wasn't the first time he got caught "contradicting" himself, to say the least.

We even had a translator who tried working with him before, but the guy said it was literally impossible to work with L&P on translations as he would randomly send him little snippets of text without any context, which made it pretty much impossible to come up with a good sentence fitting to the scene it would belong to.

Rumour has it that L&P has found someone to help with the translation part of the game. No clue if this guy is still working with him on the current update, though. But honestly, seeing that there's barely a single page translated per day makes it really hard to believe that there's an actual translator doing any work whatsoever. 27(?) pages of text to translate, started on November 1st. The update is scheduled between the 15th and 21st of November, and assuming that we're only getting a 5% increase on the translation front per day means that it's atleast going to take 20 days until it's finished. The last update had around 30% more text and it took L&P 23(?) days to finish the P&T part, meaning that it's probably even slower this time around. God knows how that's even possible, but oh well.
 
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yihman1

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Anyone got a time machine that can bounce a few years into the future to when this game is completed and come back and release it for us? Be a bro... Forget about stopping 9/11, killing Hitler, or fucking your grandma back when she was hot and 18 years old to become your own grandpa. I want the full game.
 

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Anyone got a time machine that can bounce a few years into the future to when this game is completed and come back and release it for us? Be a bro... Forget about stopping 9/11, killing Hitler, or fucking your grandma back when she was hot and 18 years old to become your own grandpa. I want the full game.
Few years? I think you meant a couple decades.:(:cry:

And while we are at it get that record book. I need to talk to a man about a bet.
 
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palmtrees89

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Firstly from what I have heard here from people who have done translation, German to English is very tough.
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. :giggle:

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. o_O
 
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