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Re: the mysterious word ''t-midew''
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:45 pm
by lapeirousia19(imported)
In the bootleg they use 3 words: t-mildew,midew-t and t-midew.
Which one is the good one and what do they mean?
Re: the mysterious word ''t-midew''
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:18 pm
by LiamBrady(imported)
I've read something about that somewhere.
Don't remember.
I think it's a translation error or something.
It makes no sense.
Re: the mysterious word ''t-midew''
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:40 pm
by DeKaFu
It's a terrible mistranslation of "T-Fanger". As in Telefanger.
I have a theory on exactly how this happened:
"Fanger" is written in Japanese as:
or "FANGAA".
If you were to change (or misread) one letter, you'd instead get:
or "FANGAI".
Which translates to "Fungi".
Now, it's obvious that the bootleggers have no grasp at all on the English language, so they probably wouldn't have seen the problem with using a different word that means the same thing. Mildew is a type of fungus. It's possible their dictionary had them both in the same entry. So, they decided to use "Mildew" instead of "Fungi".
This is probably how most of the game is translated. They misread the Japanese, translate it to the wrong English word, and then mispell it for the entire game.
Re: the mysterious word ''t-midew''
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:49 am
by lapeirousia19(imported)
In the bootleg it's this:
''the persons who use the electric monsters very well''
WTF
Re: the mysterious word ''t-midew''
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:26 am
by LiamBrady(imported)
I think the bootleggers used an online translator.
Explains alot.
Re: the mysterious word ''t-midew''
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:09 am
by bucketheadj(imported)
what if you have electric monsters but you suck does that make you not a t-mildew
Re: the mysterious word ''t-midew''
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:46 pm
by Typhlosion(imported)
bucketheadj wrote: what if you have electric monsters but you suck does that make you not a t-mildew
Then you're a T-Mushroom.
Re: the mysterious word ''t-midew''
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:59 pm
by andwhyisit
Typhlosion wrote: bucketheadj wrote: what if you have electric monsters but you suck does that make you not a t-mildew
Then you're a T-Mushroom.
lol.
Re: the mysterious word ''t-midew''
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:58 pm
by Zephyr(imported)
DeKaFu wrote: It's a terrible mistranslation of "T-Fanger". As in Telefanger.
I have a theory on exactly how this happened:
"Fanger" is written in Japanese as:
or "FANGAA".
If you were to change (or misread) one letter, you'd instead get:
or "FANGAI".
Which translates to "Fungi".
Now, it's obvious that the bootleggers have no grasp at all on the English language, so they probably wouldn't have seen the problem with using a different word that means the same thing. Mildew is a type of fungus. It's possible their dictionary had them both in the same entry. So, they decided to use "Mildew" instead of "Fungi".
This is probably how most of the game is translated. They misread the Japanese, translate it to the wrong English word, and then mispell it for the entire game.
But somehow they read Fungus as Fangs, now didn't they?
Talk about a mix-up, eh?
Lol T-mushroom.