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vv-ispy · 7 months ago

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the whiplash of hearing 'fa er jia' and going '....wait that's varka'

god I love playing genshin in chinese with chinese subtitles as someone who can only somewhat understand chinese, Eula starts speaking in her Lawrence clan way and all of a sudden I truly have no idea what she's saying

#the translation consideration of the names........the struggle of the 'v' sound #also the 'r' sounds i guess. not that there isn't an 'r' sound in chinese but in names it tends to be transliterated into an 'l' sound #the 'jia' was a surprise too i expected them to use a k sound but i guess not #i'm sure there's a lot of consideration and mybe some rules that goes into name transliterations i just don't know them #and instead go :0 when it transliterates into something different from english #personal //#also sara (the mondstadt resturant owner waitress person) gets transliterated into 'sa la' which. makes sense.#but also. i thought they were talking about salad bc salad is a loan word in chinese into 'sa la' as well skldhf #(not the same hanzi characters though)

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