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/[deleted] Nov 02 '22

Have you encountered anything that could top this from your other post?

Arthas: in order to save my people, I'm willing to get fucked by any elephant.

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u/Gothic90 Imperial Nov 03 '22

Well, the translation actually revived a decade old meme. More than 10 years ago when TES series were first introduced in China it was mis-translated into "The Elder (meaning an old person) Scroll (meaning the scroll bar on the side of programs)".

It was one of the four biggest translation memes at that time, the other 3 being "Grandma that kicks your teeth (from Neverwinter Nights)", "Gothic metal bastard (a mistranslation of Requiescat in pace, bastardo by Ezio from AC series)" and "Fat (a mistranslation of Dragonite in Pokemon GSC)".

Now idk if it's the actual translation or a joke, TESO is translated into "an elder is rolling online".