Any plans to improve the quality of Chinese Translation?
scrosedk
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First, I appreciate the idea and effort to launch the project to officially make Chinese language available in the game. However, the quality of the translation is kinda disturbing and it definitely requires improvement imo. A few examples are listed below to show where the effort should be focused on.
1. Abuse of Transliteration
1-a. The name of the dungeon "Blackdrake Villa" has been translated to "黑德雷克 庄园" where "德雷克" is just the sound of the pronunciation of "Drake" in Chinese. However, Drake has an actual meaning which is dragon or its relatives. So it would be more proper to translate the name to "黑龙庄园" or other alternatives which possess the meanings close to "龙"。
1-b. Another example similar to the 1st one is the translation of the zone name "Fargrave". This one is worse than the last one cause the whole word has been transliterated to "法格雷夫" to mimic the sound of its pronunciation in English.
1-c. Lucent Citadel has been translated to "卢晶堡垒". I have no idea what the business of the character "卢" is here except it mimics the pronunciation of "Lu....".
2. Wrong Chinese Characters used
Only one example will be presented here: Torch-bug has been translated to "营火虫" where the Chinese character"营" should be "萤"。And ofcoz similar mistakes abound in the game.
3. Wrong meaning conveyed
Let's take the translation of the 5-item bonus of the set "Power Assault" for example. First goes the description of the bonus in English:
" When you cast an Assault ability while in combat, you and up to 5 group members within 12 meters gain 307 Weapon and Spell Damage for 15 seconds."
Then here comes the translation:
"当你在战斗中施放一个突袭技能时，你和5米内至多12名小队成员获得289武器伤害和法术伤害，持续15秒." and if the part "你和5米内至多12名小队成员" is translated back in English it will be "you and up to 12 group members within 5 meters". So the apparently the numbers 5 and 12 have been exchanged in the process of translation to convey a totally different meaning.
That is all for the moment. I'll update when i run into more.
1. Abuse of Transliteration
1-a. The name of the dungeon "Blackdrake Villa" has been translated to "黑德雷克 庄园" where "德雷克" is just the sound of the pronunciation of "Drake" in Chinese. However, Drake has an actual meaning which is dragon or its relatives. So it would be more proper to translate the name to "黑龙庄园" or other alternatives which possess the meanings close to "龙"。
1-b. Another example similar to the 1st one is the translation of the zone name "Fargrave". This one is worse than the last one cause the whole word has been transliterated to "法格雷夫" to mimic the sound of its pronunciation in English.
1-c. Lucent Citadel has been translated to "卢晶堡垒". I have no idea what the business of the character "卢" is here except it mimics the pronunciation of "Lu....".
2. Wrong Chinese Characters used
Only one example will be presented here: Torch-bug has been translated to "营火虫" where the Chinese character"营" should be "萤"。And ofcoz similar mistakes abound in the game.
3. Wrong meaning conveyed
Let's take the translation of the 5-item bonus of the set "Power Assault" for example. First goes the description of the bonus in English:
" When you cast an Assault ability while in combat, you and up to 5 group members within 12 meters gain 307 Weapon and Spell Damage for 15 seconds."
Then here comes the translation:
"当你在战斗中施放一个突袭技能时，你和5米内至多12名小队成员获得289武器伤害和法术伤害，持续15秒." and if the part "你和5米内至多12名小队成员" is translated back in English it will be "you and up to 12 group members within 5 meters". So the apparently the numbers 5 and 12 have been exchanged in the process of translation to convey a totally different meaning.
That is all for the moment. I'll update when i run into more.
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