Mistake and group preferences?

[snm-queen.livejournal.com]

Was I the only one who thought that Shinsen & Ureshii sub for the Emperor's second line in episode 6 was a little off?
Didn't he say something along the lines of, "今クロヴィスと話した...急がなければな けかくご"? Basically, "I was talking to Clovis, we must speed up the plan(?). (I probably screwed up somewhere in both the Japanese sentence and the translation but I'm not claiming to be the purveyor of perfect Japanese. Oh, far from it. XD) But to translate that second part as, "He is on a beach now, at peace", can anyone see where that comes from? Or is this how they've always been, like, their level of translation? (Does that even make sense?) I've only watched episode 6 by them and I noticed some other little things but they weren't quite as odd as this and I always thought Shinsen was a good group so now I'm just curious.

Asking since I'm trying to burn stuff for a friend as part of a get-well present and I'd rather she not end up with odd subs. I personally watch RAWs & gg, since soft subs make taking caps for graphics easier, but the added notes are kind of annoying. So...thoughts?

EDIT: Too many comments, I give up. XD;; Just wanted to thank everyone for their input and I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one who noticed the mis-translation.

Comments

[rhyste.livejournal.com]

Reports at this point can pretty much be summarized as me going places like here or web forums and digging through episode discussions. No really steady stream...more of a really awkward collection. XD Atm, most of the stuff for ep1 is stuff like "change Nightmare Flame -> Knightmare Frame" or "Change Person A's name" type of stuff. We've recently switched translators, and I was thinking of having the new one go over episodes one when the DVD rolls around.

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

He might be on a beach! A celestial heavenly beach, sunning himself and painting. :)

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

if you need some help, i've done a few very picky posts on the first few episodes ^^;;

of course, some of the stuff i've said is wrong, like the 'a.t.b' issue ~__~

[rhyste.livejournal.com]

Dude, what Rachel did to Ralph in ep 22 was... hot. *_*

[rhyste.livejournal.com]

Would appreciate all of the help we can get. *_*;;

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

HAHHAHAHAHAH XDDDDDDD I WANT A BEACH IN HEAVEN!! SUNNY EVERY DAY! NEVER SUNBURNT!

[rhyste.livejournal.com]

So what color are his swim trunks? <_<

[rhyste.livejournal.com]

Lol I'm still not sure about 1/2 of everyones names. XD I'm trying to come up with some more consistent subs before DVD 01 rolls around. x_X

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

If you've seen no further, I won't spoil you, but she's not done yet!

(She had to deal with her eternal rival!)

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

So that explains why the recent mistrans moments aren't as WTF as Jaiereven. For errata collection, though...Japanese blogs can be helpful sometimes. The more fangirly ones have significant chunks of the script posted around as fanning quotes. And they, being Japanese, have better ears for the language than us non-11s.

There are miscellanous spots where things could've been translated better, too. Like that cross-dressing festival thing. I've forgotten most of my pettier complaints by this time, but I can run up a new list if you think it'd be helpful?

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Probably with the Britannian crest!

[rhyste.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah, I was helping out on episode 23 and 24 earlier today actually. XD What she did in 23 was also totally <3!!!

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

Since I never watched anything by Ureshii....

Old adage of work : Don't take anything you're not prepared to. He could just went insane one day, though. Beach?

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

PINK O____Ov

green or something >__>

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

if you look back a couple of entries, someone posted scans of animage with the offical english names of all the main characters :)

[rhyste.livejournal.com]

...Pink with Britannia crests?

FANART, NOW!

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Rachel is awesome. She really would have made Vetti the best wife ever. Except he's gay and mad. But apart from that. :DDD

[rhyste.livejournal.com]

...damn, is that where "Nunally" came from? o_o

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

yeah it did XDDD nunNally, really XDDD

[rhyste.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes it'd be very helpful if you really didn't mind doing it. XD;

[rhyste.livejournal.com]

df;lk345df;klgkldfg ugh. Okay. @_@; Maybe I should make two subtitle tracks in the MKV... the default one with the official names and the second one with the "fan favorite" names... ><;;

...question, was Rival spelled "Rivalz" in this said scan too?

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

Not at all.^^; I like doing this kind of thing, hence my rather unfortunate role as the community newspammer. XD;

[rhyste.livejournal.com]

Haha. They can be married as Queen & Queen, and can both wear the Tiara! >_>;;

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

these are kinda mean, and a bit messed up ^__^;; i normally contrast gg's subs with the chinese subs, so the correctness depends on the correctness of the chinese subs .___.

http://x-reggg.livejournal.com/131689.html
http://x-reggg.livejournal.com/122685.html
http://x-reggg.livejournal.com/119550.html

that's about it ^__^;; sorry about the mean-ness :(

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

8.5 is out? O_O *hasn't finished her f-list reading*