This part just speaks for itself, but it's probably just a typo, I mean it's obvious it should have been "smacked".
Yes, a very basic mistake.
ghostdog said:
I went through all the text of the intro with the second translation and I played a bit more afterwards. My guess is you tried for a word to word translation but failed to actually make it sound like natural English...
...The rest of your translation is full of weird syntax and phrasing. It looks like machine translation. The old translation isn't great, but it reads much better.
Thank you for doing a proper critique.
That's how it will (usually) end up when trying to retain the full meaning of the original passage.
Phrases used in 1 language does not have a natural equivalent for another of the same meaning , especially when the 2 languages do not share a common history.
If it's a machine translation, I would not have expended my time and effort to doing a 'better' translation for just a couple of lines.
readme.txt said:
A better translation of the actual opening scene is implemented in 'SDLPal International' fork to showcase flexible dialog lines feature.
'Better' here is subjective.
My objective for the opening scene re-translation is to showcase the flexible dialogue lines feature and, to a lesser extent, to show how much naunces have been lost in translation. Even more than a typical Jap to Eng translation as Chinese has very compact writing and lesser foreign language influences.
ghostdog said:
Is there a way to use the old translation with the enhanced exe?
The rest (after gaining keyboard control of the main character) is the same, except for 1 poetry.
The differences are all listed in this section:
readme.txt said:
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As Chinese is a very compact language, so there's bound to be lost-in-translation (formerly due to character width limitations, now alleviated by 'SDLPal International' fork).
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Feel free to do a critique on that poetry after you have a 2-character party.
palmusicfan did a sweet summary. :thumbs up:
ghostdog said:
This is the version I'm using. I download it again and re-installed it just in case, but it's the same. I'm using the unofficial exe provided in the first post, could this be the problem? I don't have the means to compile louyihua's offical sdlpal exe.
Just use the unofficial exe (compiled by palmusicfan), to continue the game, the only difference left is that 1 poetry.
(which btw is also the recommended version stated in readme.txt)
I've lost count of how many times I've mentioned 'readme.txt'.
You failed in reading 'readme.txt' skillcheck.