any Taiwanese speakers here to translate info on miniature panda?

While having a look at the Taiwanese Guild Wars website ( http://guildwars.nctaiwan.com/ ) I stumbled about the following image, obviously featuring a panda and several ""cryptic letters"" I am not able to read:



Is here any person being able to translate this or any person has some friend who knows somebody who has contact to somebody who can read this?

Thanks & Bye,
T.T.H.

it reads something like this:

"(Nightfall) Intense! The fight for the Title, Mini pet giveaway."

watever that title is.....just wondering why would you browse the Taiwanese website if you cannot read Chinese

*EDIT: ok this is pissing me off, just had a read about the mini pet thingy on that site. how i wish i'm playing the chinese version >.<. details below:

from 1/11/2006-17/12/2006, 1st person to get any of these titles and register for the "contest" will get a set of 6 mini-pets, including a panda, naga, kanaxai, oni, yeti, and the tree guardian thingy. titles are: Advanced Skill Hunter for Elonian character (180 Elite Skills capped), Prot of Elona, Elonian cartographer(90% map), Elite Skill Hunter for Prop or Factions character (290 Elite Skills capped). the 2nd - 5th person of those titles will get a set of 5 mini pets (no kanaxai).

But oh well it can't be done on English version cuz there're already too many ppl with those titles already =P

Over and out*

Umm, Taiwaneese people speak Chinese.

i dont even like minipets and im jealous

Why I had been there? Because I installed "font support for east-asian letters" on my Windows and wanted to test if it's working - and I knew Guild Wars has several regional websites that contain plenty "east-asian letters".

What a pitty that those special mini pets are so extremly rare and uber expensive...

Thanks for the translation!

haha icic.....well no problem mate.

People in Taiwan speak Mandarin and Taiwanese. Taiwanese is a language that came to being when Japan took over Taiwan. Mandarin is the most common (to my knowledge) form of Chinese spoken. Of course, people in Taiwan (older generation) tend to speak Japanese as well, also remnant from the Japanese influence. And as always, there are rural areas where the language isn't exactly the same as the main stream language. Just a quick FYI from someone who's lived in Taiwan for a long time.

I don't think it's fair that only they're getting the mini pets, I want one too! I mean, yeah, they need incentive to buy the game as the asian market has a lot more online games than other areas, but still... I'm gonna bug my cousin to gimme a mini pet if he gets one ^_^

Just to clear up abit.

I believe "Taiwanese" (that shadowmist was referring to) is actually a Chinese dialect called Hokkien. This is a common Chinese dialect, alongside others like Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka, and many others. Hokkien in Taiwan may be slightly different (or should I say, more accurate) than Hokkien in other parts of the world as the dialect is usually evolved to become as mix with native languages in other places (as with Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, basically with anywhere Hokkien is spoken).

All Chinese belong to one of the dialect groups, and all the dialects are another form of Mandarin. Mandarin is indeed the common language amongst Chinese.

As Taiwan came under Japanese occupation before, most elderly Taiwanese can speak Japanese. However, Taiwan (compared to other places that are densely populated by Chinese) is under more influence by Japanese trends.

Mandarin was chosen/standardized as the official 'Chinese' by the government. It doesn't mean that the other dialects are variants of Mandarin... in fact, linguists argue that the various so-called dialects are so different that it's just politics that make them dialects. I speak Cantonese, which is to Mandarin what Norwegian probably is to Danish; what makes Norwegian and Danish different 'languages' but Cantonese and Mandarin 'dialects' of Chinese?

Well, if you look back in history, you'll see that even Mandarin was a dialect itself (what we knew as the mother dialect) and all dialects in China had been regional-based, derived primarily from Ancient Chinese (used in the earlier dynasties).

You're definitely right about the politics stuff, it was neccessary as even Chinese need a common language to understand each other.

Ack, perhaps the way I phrased it was kinda confusing. But my point was that all variants including Mandarin are dialects originally (they were equivalents), with Mandarin being chosen as the 'standard' or 'common' language.

Taiwaness Offical Release 50 Panda today (11/21)

So , you will see lots of panda on the market


http://guildwars.nctaiwan.com/event/...t/winList1.asp

^Nice, I wouldn't mind a panda