EPTAs for workers, always called farmers in game cause in China everybody farms
[R]Names of SC races in Chinese - Page 2
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hmsrenown
Canada1263 Posts
As for workers, always called farmers in game cause in China everybody farms | ||
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Legacy1
40 Posts
This, but I've heard casters call it gouzidan 狗子弹 which means dog bullet. | ||
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Bleak
Turkey3059 Posts
On January 11 2011 04:52 Vorrenus wrote: Never understood why zerg look like insects to so many people, what units exactly do you think look like bugs? Roaches, broodlords, drones, banelings, queens. These all look similar to bugs. | ||
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FrostOtter
United States537 Posts
On January 11 2011 04:52 Vorrenus wrote: Never understood why zerg look like insects to so many people, what units exactly do you think look like bugs? The roaches, queens, infestors, drones, overlords, corruptors. From BW, defilers definitely. They remind me of silverfish. | ||
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Legacy1
40 Posts
On January 11 2011 04:52 Vorrenus wrote: Never understood why zerg look like insects to so many people, what units exactly do you think look like bugs? Speedlings look like grasshoppers. I mean they have friggin insectoid wings after all. Roaches are... roaches? | ||
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impirion
124 Posts
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FrostOtter
United States537 Posts
On January 11 2011 04:56 impirion wrote: Lings I would imagine, especially the way they look once they have ling speed with their wings. Mutas too I guess, though less so they are more kinda like a flying scorpion or something. My dream is for HotS to have an upgrade for flying lings. Not scourge-- flying lings. | ||
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hmsrenown
Canada1263 Posts
On January 11 2011 04:55 Legacy1 wrote: This, but I've heard casters call it gouzidan 狗子弹 which means dog bullet. The explalantiong for baneling translation is because they are morphed from zerglings, and zerglings are called dogs/puppies from SC/BW cause they looks like it. Also sometimes 自爆狗 "suicide bomber dogs" are heard due to that | ||
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kNightLite
United States408 Posts
On January 11 2011 04:52 Vorrenus wrote: Never understood why zerg look like insects to so many people, what units exactly do you think look like bugs? Its all in the chitin dude. Pretty much every Zerg unit has a chitinous exoskeleton instead of an endoskeleton. And mandibles. | ||
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mavyric
Taiwan104 Posts
Although Blizzard has done a decent job with SC2 I must admit Still used to the English names though, so I'm using the English version. And actually, a lot of the names you guys are listing here dont actually sound that cool in Chinese. Thunder God 雷神 for example is actually cheesy and cheap....Thor is so much better... And Thunder Beast 雷獸 is just awful.....Where did they come up with that from Ultralisk??? | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10343 Posts
poisonous explosive insectoid ROFL haha nice, chinese can be a bit dull when translating like this but I guess it's effective and makes sense. Divine/godly race for Protoss, nice  | ||
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aznagent
Hong Kong166 Posts
On January 11 2011 05:06 mavyric wrote: Thunder God 雷神 for example is actually cheesy and cheap....Thor is so much better... How is Thunder god cheesy or cheap? Thor IS the god of lightning/thunder in norse? mythology so it is just a direct translation. I don't expect the Chinese commentators to be saying "thor" when everything else has been translated | ||
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suejak
Japan545 Posts
On January 11 2011 05:12 aznagent wrote: How is Thunder god cheesy or cheap? Thor IS the god of lightning/thunder in norse? mythology so it is just a direct translation. I don't expect the Chinese commentators to be saying "thor" when everything else has been translated Well, no... Thor is a name, and 雷神 is a... description. It's like if goliath were translated "giant" instead of just kept as "goliath" (the name of the specific giant in the David & Goliath Biblical story). It really seems like overtranslation to me to render Thor as 雷神. | ||
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hmsrenown
Canada1263 Posts
On January 11 2011 05:54 suejak wrote: Well, no... Thor is a name, and 雷神 is a... description. It's like if goliath were translated "giant" instead of just kept as "goliath" (the name of the specific giant in the David & Goliath Biblical story). It really seems like overtranslation to me to render Thor as 雷神. What you obviously missed is the fact that translating the name directly is a much, much more terrible option than the current translation. In Chinese mythology, if I weren't mistaken, god of thunder is generally called 雷公, and is always referred to as that name. His image is quite different from the Nordic one. Due to the lack of correlation, the name "Thor" should not be translated directly, and 雷神 sounds a lot better. Unless, of course, you wanna create a new word for this unit, which is a lot harder in Chinese compared to the same process in English. | ||
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elitebear
United States35 Posts
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SugarBear
United States842 Posts
On January 11 2011 04:52 Vorrenus wrote: Never understood why zerg look like insects to so many people, what units exactly do you think look like bugs? Larvae, aka the unit every other zerg unit evolves from. | ||
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Thienan567
United States670 Posts
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Kinetik_Inferno
United States1431 Posts
sorta like gunship, it sounds crude, yet they use it in star wars. :/ | ||
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Mr Tambourine Man
Netherlands190 Posts
On January 11 2011 06:26 Thienan567 wrote: So, does anyone have a link or something that has all the Chinese translations? Back to English ofc. I'm not sure there is such a thing. Would be cool to see though. I don't understand the name for viking. It is 维京, right? Is it purely for the sound, so it sounds like viking? That seems so different from the other translations. | ||
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snpnx
Germany454 Posts
On January 11 2011 06:28 Mr Tambourine Man wrote: I'm not sure there is such a thing. Would be cool to see though. I don't understand the name for viking. It is 维京, right? Is it purely for the sound, so it sounds like viking? That seems so different from the other translations. It also means Viking, not only for the sound. | ||
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