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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:20 pm
by Vlad
I'm sure 'Alwetend' sounds intresting and mysterious to the English-speaking Ravenloft-gamers, but in Dutch it kinda sucks, I'm sorry. My (dutch) players would laugh their pants off. Don't wanna be around when that happens. To translate it in English, the name of the domain would be 'all-knowing'..
Rest of the domain is cool, though
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:08 pm
by Gwenfloor
Vlad wrote:I'm sure 'Alwetend' sounds intresting and mysterious to the English-speaking Ravenloft-gamers, but in Dutch it kinda sucks, I'm sorry. My (dutch) players would laugh their pants off. Don't wanna be around when that happens. To translate it in English, the name of the domain would be 'all-knowing'..
Rest of the domain is cool, though
That is sort of the point. The government is quite arrogant and propaganda-driven.
What would be a better suggestion?
Landen van Overvloed, or maybe Het koninkrijk van de Schemering
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:41 am
by Vlad
Well, I don't like dutch names as names of places, at least not the one with a direct meaning in Dutch. Takes the gothic mood away imho.
I'm thinking on an alternative. Gran Hermosa for instance. Very suitable except to spanish players, because it translates to Big Brother....
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:16 am
by Nathan of the FoS
Vlad wrote:Well, I don't like dutch names as names of places, at least not the one with a direct meaning in Dutch. Takes the gothic mood away imho.
I'm thinking on an alternative. Gran Hermosa for instance. Very suitable except to spanish players, because it translates to Big Brother....
That's "Hermano Mayor".
(Mayor is two syllables--mai-YOR.)
Gran is "great", as in "Alexander the Great",
hermosa is "beautiful" or "a beautiful woman." So what you've got there is "Great Beauty." If you put the adjective after the noun (Hermano Grande),
grande does mean big, but it's "physically big", not "older".
Here endeth the Spanish lesson.
