[Translation] Asia Tour 2007 DVD

[Melrose]

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@prus: o.O Don't ask me, I'm just fixing it up into proper English (or trying to do so anyway). XD

[truehappiness]

Seems like there's some hostility here when it should be a joyful environment.. o_o;

The translation's okay. Though there are some parts that should be edited for clarity.

[Melrose]

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Like the being high thing..It is meant for English speaking people after all not people who already understand Asian languages..

[truehappiness]

Yeah. :/

I mean, if you're not gonna change it, at least put a footnote.

[makie_7]

wow amazing!!! I love translations! ty!

[Raiu-Ayu]

Why all the drama?? People you should just be happy that you're getting a translation. Yeah so it ain't 100% perfect, God forbid you have to do a little work yourselves

[se7entheaven]

ya i think the translation is OK oredi
i mean..even it's not really good or what...at least u get the main points of the docs rite?

[leo_nardez]

^ yeap yeap...

love u guys, Raiu-Ayu, se7entheaven, that aint complain too much^^

anyway, will edit it if i'm free....

[Catzi]

These guys worked hard. Be less critical, more supportive.

[prussian blue]

makie, raiuayu , catzi, rendy: you know how much i love you all?
*crying in joy*

[alternarist]

Originally Posted by prussian blue

its my favourite quote
i'm kinda like your saying alternarist

thanks. i come back from work and see all these drama. argh.

Originally Posted by Raiu-Ayu

Why all the drama?? People you should just be happy that you're getting a translation. Yeah so it ain't 100% perfect, God forbid you have to do a little work yourselves

thanks for ur help.

Originally Posted by leo_nardez

anyway, will edit it if i'm free....

there's nth to edit unless i approves. right?

[Ame.P]

This is great! Love the effort for the translations~ I shall not torture myself and read the Chinese version anymore. Mwwhehehe.

Thanks y'all~!

[TITANIC]

great job and special thanks for prussian blue,alternarist and leo.
i'm enjoying and start reading the translation

[syntherella]

Wow!~ Many thanks to prussianblue, alternarist and leo_nardez for this! Good to know I haven't been misunderstanding the script booklet! I'd also like to share some comments on what Melrose pointed out in post 103 on page 6:

Originally Posted by Melrose

^ Haha Maybe you could rephrase "high", like "full of energy"? In the US/England/wherever they speak English I've never heard someone say that they are high, and not mean drugs. :O

Well, I can't speak for the British, but in the US 'high' is also now commonly used to mean very happy. I guess it sort of graduated from drug junkie lingo to mainstream English.

Originally Posted by Melrose

What is oriental flavor? XDD Is this a mistake or am I just stupid?

The use of flavour here is strictly figurative. Nothing to do with taste, but more of feeling, as alternarist has already said.

Originally Posted by Melrose

"too rushed" as in, the bridge was made too quickly to be good? Or do you mean "too fast", as in that the bridge is too fast to connect it with only 4 beats?

I personally believe the former, as in the bridge can be done, but not without being too fast to fit well with the rest of the performance, hence 'too rushed'.

Originally Posted by Melrose

"Hope that" isn't right. It should be "It is hoped that" or "She hopes"/"he hopes"/"I hope"/etc. I don't know who hopes lol.

Well, a verb is all that is needed to make a complete sentence, but I would agree that 'It is hoped that…' fits the narrative more.

Originally Posted by Melrose

"I do this since 5 years ago" = "I have been doing this since 5 years ago" if he has been doing it for 5 years and is still doing it.

I just don't really get this part. Resisting what? XD Wrong verb translated?

I think you do understand it. As you rightly pointed out, it should have been 'I have been doing' instead of 'I do.' The verb is right there, just in the wrong tense.

Originally Posted by Melrose

What? o.o "I myself am confused" sounds better. But I still don't know quite where to place "myself". That's like saying "You yourself are confused". Are you sure she said that? lol

There is actually nothing grammatically wrong with 'I myself am confused'. However, not many people phrase it like this. They usually say, 'Even I'm confused'.

Originally Posted by Melrose

Hmm, I don't really get this part. "as one"? She's already talking about just herself, so you can't say "as one". You use that when talking about a group of people doing something "as one". Maybe you mean "by herself"?

I feel Ayu was talking about Asia. I would have translated it as, 'If you were to ask me if Asia is really one now, I wouldn't be able to tell. But my wish for it to become one will never change. Asia is one!

Hope you understand better now, Melrose! It may surprise you, but we do speak English in Asia! Non-Asians take a while to learn our native tongues, if at all. Still, don't expect the Queen's English here—we gained independence from colonial rule a long time ago, ha ha!

[prussian blue]

^ i love your last sentence

[Tokiya]

Originally Posted by Melrose

"too rush" has no meaning lol.

Not gonna bother to reply about the other stuff.

Lol... so much drama over perfect English.
Let's put it this way, if you're not happy, don't read it.
If you can translate it better, please learn Japanese first then translate into perfect English. Otherwise, this is unnecessary to such a fuss.
by the way "too rush" is a colloquial use of English. It's almost like slang.
Too bad you don't understand it, Melrose.

[leo_nardez]

if everyone here can understand and excuse our slight tense mistake, why not u?
and I believe that u understand all the meaning~

[leo_nardez]

I dunno if i can change it, im so lazy to change,
some more, there is this whole URL code of color everywhere,,,it's so complicated to even find one sentence~ can anyone help?

[syntherella]

Originally Posted by leo_nardez

I dunno if i can change it, im so lazy to change,
some more, there is this whole URL code of color everywhere,,,it's so complicated to even find one sentence~ can anyone help?

I think pressing Ctrl + F while in edit mode and typing the phrases you want to change into the Find field should work. You might want to be as specific as possible ie type as complete a phrase or sentence as possible so that you get to the correct part of the post right away. Maybe have the original post open for normal viewing in another browser tab or window then copy and paste as needed. Hope this helps, and thanks again for editing!

[AyUmIXx]

alternarist, prussian_blue and also Leo translated the MANDARIN version ( NOT JAPANESE version) of this AT07 documentary into english and they based on the MANDARIN characters to translate it, so some of the translations may not be 100% correct because MANDARIN and JAPANESE can't be exactly in the same meaning!!!
but at least, we can still understand what the documentary is all about..

if you want to know what's exactly the meaning of this documentary, then ask someone who has fluent Japanese and ask him/her to listen to all what Ayu and the people on the documentary said and made the translation into english~ then, i guess you'll get the good, perfect and brilliant english

so don't blame on those 3 up there who have been working so hard to help you guys to make the translation~