English to Chinese GW translation

daveham

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2007

E/

After spending a few days trading in International district, I think it's only fair I share my Chinese to English phrasebook.

Before I go any further, I will also say that their English is far far superior to my Chinese.....

Outstanding person soldier book = Elite warrior tome

Man riding bone cow = Necrid horseman minipet

dagger man bash bash white = Assasin tome

toothpaste items = sweets

Make die dark = black dye

orange fat man potion = Transmogrifier tonic

WTB: Scary man with tree - never worked that one out? any ideas?

and finally my personal favourite

make sexy lady head gem = ruby (the mind boggles!)


and of course before anyone points out the obvious, that should read Chinese to English....D'Oh

Shadowfox1125

Shadowfox1125

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2005

PST

W/

WTB: Scary man with tree - never worked that one out? any ideas?

Yeti?

Nice.. literal translations.. but how is black dye "make die dark"?
Black should be.. hei .. excuse my poor hanyu pinyin

onerabbit

onerabbit

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Thanks to all the guru [mods]

wts white assassin 100g = (normal tome)

wts shiny assassin 2k = (elite tome)

Alexandra-Sweet

Alexandra-Sweet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2006

That one place with the trees, mountains and snow

Ember Power Mercenaries [EMP]

Me/

I fail to see the point of this thread, is it suppose to be humorous or something?

Lets Get to Healing

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

You want see?

True Gods of War [True]

Mo/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexandra-Sweet
I fail to see the point of this thread, is it suppose to be humorous or something?
Yeah, me too.

drago34

drago34

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2005

California

Looking for good PvE guild ...

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexandra-Sweet
I fail to see the point of this thread, is it suppose to be humorous or something?
I'm going to take a guess that it's meant to be humorous because I don't see any other point.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

It's seems that OP went to International and found some non-english speaking players beating up hard the language, you know... like a roundhouse kick in the face of Shakespeare.

He found that funny and now he's presenting you his 'pearls of wisdom'.

Croco Clouds

Croco Clouds

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2007

Montreal, QC, Canada

Divine Illumination [LaZy]

E/A

WTS Man riding bone cow 5K

= instead WTF from ppl

tongling

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

Those translations make perfect sense in Chinese characters. They did a good job on localization. OP just translate them back from Chinese to English word by word, made them lost meaning purposely.

OP, you're trying to make fun of a language that exists about 3000+ years and supports communciations among over 1.3b of people only makes a fool of yourself.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

No reasonable discussion can come from this thread.

Closed.