Forum:About some translation stuff

Okay, so I've been working pretty exclusively on equipment lists, but I had some questions about unlocalized ones. I noticed that someone started up Patty's knife list, and I created one a long time ago here. Consequently, I could pretty easily reformat and upload to help out, but I'm not quite sure how to handle a lot of the translations since they seem incredibly funky. Like, I could easily circumvent this issue in Phantasia with some of Klarth's books since, even though they didn't follow the name exactly, the reference was still clear (i.e. Myst. Seven Hsan instead of The Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan or Messa Requiem instead of Messa di Requiem). With Patty, though, I'm almost positive that the vast majority are meant to refer to either planets or signs or the zodiac. The zodiac ones aren't quite so bad, though still deformed slightly (Cancers, Geminio, Scorpia, Leoluca, Capria, Pisca), but the planetary ones are just awful. I'm almost positive that they're supposed to be linked since they're all the ones with the altered arte skills, but they're so distorted in some places that the reference is almost completely obscured. Some are mostly fine (Grow Earth? Mercurias? Jupiter? Saturn Crow?), others seem like they're meant to be linked in a way that doesn't work well in English (Neputian/Nepusheen? Flamars/Flay Mars?), and others are just awful (Uracano? Winve?). You can see my notes at the bottom of the post I linked to for more info on my interpretations. Basically, how the heck do I handle these? Do I spell them in a way nearest to how they sound and then make notes at the bottom? Do I just not even bother with notes and try to make it as evident as possible by separating out stuff (i.e. Ura Cano, Win Ve, Nepu Sheen)? Do I use brackets to insert information I think is missing from the katakana? I'm just kind of lost because it looks very, very messy and unprofessionally done as is, in my opinion.

I'm kind of having this same problem with Rebirth, but there's no clear pattern there. <_< I think that's more an issue of working out what language everything is in. I've gotten most of Veigue's stuff since it was clearly German, but bleh to everyone else. ;_;

TSF Lunar Eclipse 15:07, May 21, 2010 (UTC)