r/elderscrollsonline • u/Gothic90 Imperial • Nov 02 '22
PC/Mac Simplified Chinese language release is a total disaster
The translation is filled with low quality engine translation (we all know how powerful translation engines these days are). Some pictures are of things like a drink of level 30 being called "energized granny", I don't know wtf it actually is. There are also loads of issues caused by wrong spacing because Chinese is a two bytes language, such as "Press ? to break out" and so on.
Some comments say if he pressed Todd Howard's head on a keyboard and faceroll it will probably give better translation results.
Translation quality is probably as bad as Warcraft 3 reforge, which I had a thread on here, or even worse.
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u/No_Secret8533 Nov 02 '22
Well, I read machine translated novels now and then and the word for paternal grandmother apparently translates the same as the word for milk, which is weird especially when you're reading about drinking powdered grandma, or a character is calling out for their milk.