Gunnerkrigg Court in Other Languages

[Asuka]

I have a few young friends at my Saturday school who have seen me reading Gunnerkrigg Court and absolutely love it, from a visual standpoint. Unfortunately, it's very hard for them to understand it, since they are Japanese. I took it upon myself to translate chapters 1 and 2 for them, with hopes that when they get older they'll be able to read it in its original English. I thought I'd share a few pages I've completed so far:

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I claim absolutely no credit, this is strictly Tom's work and words. I've merely translated them for non-commercial use. (On the bright side, perhaps Tokyopop will notice the comic now! )

[popo]

You missed the sign in the first one.
NITPICK NITPICK.
But seriously, that's pretty cool.

[Tom Siddell]

That's very interesting, thank you for showing us

[Asuka]

popo said:

You missed the sign in the first one.
NITPICK NITPICK.
But seriously, that's pretty cool.

I did the sign, just for you!



That was harder than I thought, and it still doesn't look right! Tom has some mad skills going on.

[popo]

Now I feel like a jerk.

[Asuka]

popo said:

Now I feel like a jerk.

It's all in good fun. :)

[fr4tbrn]

That's so awesome! Now I wanna try translating it, but I only speak English :<

[Yin]

How'd you translate the names? *is curious*

[Asuka]

sli said:

How'd you translate the names? *is curious*

Hey you! I remember you from LJ. I'm asuka_chan. :3



Foreign words in Japanese are largely unchanged, just adapted for their phoenetic system ('ba' in place of 'va', for example). I translated the names as such: Antimony Carver is antemoni kaabah (アンテモニ・カーバー）. Kat is kyatto （キャット）. Shadow 2 is shadoh tsu （シャドー２）. Robot is robotto　（ロボット）. William is uiriamu　（ウィリアム）. Mrs. Donlan is donran sensei　（ドンラン先生）.

[cenit]

LAUGHING ON LINE, I would love to do that, just don´t have the art skills to actually do it. BUT if anyone is taking the trouble to do the art, I'll be willing to do the translation to spanish (...with the exception of Paz...she translated herself to spanish )

[Asuka]

cenit said:

LAUGHING ON LINE, I would love to do that, just don´t have the art skills to actually do it. BUT if anyone is taking the trouble to do the art, I'll be willing to do the translation to spanish (...with the exception of Paz...she translated herself to spanish :P )

I think that would be wonderful! If you're up for the challenge, I'll gladly help. Gunnerkrigg Court for all the world! :)

[Neon]

asuka said:

sli said:

How'd you translate the names? *is curious*

Hey you! I remember you from LJ. I'm asuka_chan. :3

Foreign words in Japanese are largely unchanged, just adapted for their phoenetic system ('ba' in place of 'va', for example). I translated the names as such: Antimony Carver is antemoni kaabah (アンテモニ・カーバー）. Kat is kyatto （キャット）. Shadow 2 is shadoh tsu （シャドー２）. Robot is robotto　（ロボット）. William is uiriamu　（ウイリアム）. Mrs. Donlan is donran sensei　（ドンラン先生）.

Why not Antimoni and Wiriamu?

[Asuka]

neon said:

asuka said:

Hey you! I remember you from LJ. I'm asuka_chan. :3

Foreign words in Japanese are largely unchanged, just adapted for their phoenetic system ('ba' in place of 'va', for example). I translated the names as such: Antimony Carver is antemoni kaabah (アンテモニ・カーバー）. Kat is kyatto （キャット）. Shadow 2 is shadoh tsu （シャドー２）. Robot is robotto　（ロボット）. William is uiriamu　（ウイリアム）. Mrs. Donlan is donran sensei　（ドンラン先生）.

Why not Antimoni and Wiriamu?

For Antimony, I tried to stick with the British pronunciation, and 'te' worked better than 'ti' (which is not a 'natural' sound and is pronounced with a very harsh 'ee' sound). There's no 'w' in Japanese, so they make up for it by combining u with another vowel. In this case it produces a sound identical to the French oui.

I feel like I'm writing a novel, haha! Translating everyone's names can't be this hard in Latin-based languages!

[Midnight Meadows]

As a Japanese major, I find this delightfully entertaining.
Well done!

[cenit]

asuka said:

cenit said:

LAUGHING ON LINE, I would love to do that, just don´t have the art skills to actually do it. BUT if anyone is taking the trouble to do the art, I'll be willing to do the translation to spanish (...with the exception of Paz...she translated herself to spanish :P )

I think that would be wonderful! If you're up for the challenge, I'll gladly help. Gunnerkrigg Court for all the world! :)

Yayyyy, that sounds awesome, you rock!!! Actually I just finished re-reading chapter 1-2 and the translation looks easy enough, and without the need to translate names, even more so.

I think Tom is in the way to offer a webcomic in multiple languages...fan-based. LAUGHING ON LINE

[mari]

SUCKS. WORST TRANSLATION EVAR. U SUCK BALLS. GB2 LJ YOU WANKER.

ROFL.

'Sup, babe? :D

[blackmantha]

asuka said:

I did the sign, just for you!

img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/asuka_chan/gc_nihon/sign.jpg

That was harder than I thought, and it still doesn't look right! Tom has some mad skills going on.

It looks like you just rotated and sized the characters. If you want to make it look natural, you'll have to use a perspective tool. I can find it in Photoshop, don't know about other graphical problems.
Note, a tool that can take a rectangle and reshape into any quadrangle isn't a perspective tool. It's close, but not quite right.

[Asuka]

mari said:

SUCKS. WORST TRANSLATION EVAR. U SUCK BALLS. GB2 LJ YOU WANKER.

ROFL.

'Sup, babe? :D

Your harsh words cut me deep. ;o;

It's okay, ILU regardless. :3

[Neon]

asuka said:

There's no 'w' in Japanese, so they make up for it by combining u with another vowel. In this case it produces a sound identical to the French oui.

Yeah, but it's not written as ウイ [that's pronounced ui], it's written as ウィ.

[cenit]

mari said:

SUCKS. WORST TRANSLATION EVAR. U SUCK BALLS. GB2 LJ YOU WANKER.

ROFL.

'Sup, babe? :D

That kind of language should be bannned from this forum

[Midnight Meadows]

cenit said:

That kind of language should be bannned from this forum

HAaaaHahahaha....go learn to identify sarcasm.

Do they not teach social intelligence anymore these days?

[popo]

Sarcasm should be banned from this forum.

[Yin]

But sarcasm is fuuun D:

[Asuka]

neon said:

asuka said:

There's no 'w' in Japanese, so they make up for it by combining u with another vowel. In this case it produces a sound identical to the French oui.

Yeah, but it's not written as ウイ [that's pronounced ui], it's written as ウィ.

Yes, exactly.

EDIT: I just realised what you were getting at! I must have typo'd in the original post. Nice catch, Neon! Thank you!

[mari]

cenit said:

mari said:

SUCKS. WORST TRANSLATION EVAR. U SUCK BALLS. GB2 LJ YOU WANKER.

ROFL.

'Sup, babe?

That kind of language should be bannned from this forum

Asuka is a friend of mine. I was joking with her. o.o

[Kirie]

I don't know what kind of a precedent (if any) there was for this, but I love that the robot speaks in katakana. In fact, I loved it so much that I created this account just to say that. Perhaps I'm just easily amused because it's early and I'm tired and I don't feel like going to work...

Nevertheless, good job with it.

[cenit]

mari said:

cenit said:

That kind of language should be bannned from this forum

Asuka is a friend of mine. I was joking with her. o.o

....Now I'm the one who feels like a jerk....sigh

[popo]

Asuka, is it your mission to make everyone in this forum feel like jerks?

[Asuka]

popo said:

Asuka, is it your mission to make everyone in this forum feel like jerks?

I...I certainly hope not. D: Maybe I have the same affliction as Annie, except instead of attracting ghosts, I somehow make everyone around me feel like a jerk.

[my2k]

Come on guys, let's not have the thread go off-topic.

That said, this is totally a noble cause, I'd love to see GC in French or something. I like how Robot has this official looking font for his voice