Translating Japanese names in so funnies. They are literally calledchildish Wearhouse under mountainor star child village rice fieldor measred sail inner village
I downloaded a really great translation of Zhuangzi with many useful notes but unfortunately the translators decided to translate a lot of the names and it just looks ridiculous>Sir Shoestrap of Southwall was leaning against his armrest on the ground, gazing upward and releasing his breath into the heavens above—all in a scatter there, as if loosed from a partner.>Sir Swimmy Faceformed stood in attendance before him. “Who or what is this here?” he asked. “Can the body really be made like a withered tree, the mind like dead ashes? What leans against this armrest now is not what leaned against it before.”>Sir Shoestrap of Southwall said, “How good it is that you question this, Yan! What’s here now is this: I have lost me. But could you know who or what that is? You hear the piping of man without yet hearing the piping of earth; you hear the piping of earth without yet hearing the piping of Heaven.”
>>221064998This is because people often choose kanji characters with different meanings simply based on how the name sounds.
>>221064998I can't blame them, Spanish surnames be like>From "city">From the family of "name">*Trade*>*Obscure historical reference*>*Codename for orphan*>*Randomly obscure reference*>*Obfuscated etymology*
>>221066456Can they randomly form complex offensive phrases depending on the reading?
>>221066572Gintama
>>221064998Still sound better than Lee Um Beok or Zhing Ting Tong
>>221067196>t. Pímpnőm Trųntrăn
>>221066561>>221064998Finnish FIRST names be like:>Snow >Swan>Luck>Pond>Storm>Berry>Without a Berry>(Concept of) Life>Hot weather day>Spring >Mint>Bear>Grasshopper>Wind(Lumi, Joutsen, Onni, Lampi, Myrsky, Marja, Marjatta, Elo, Helle, Kevät, Minttu, Otso, Sirkka, Tuuli)These are all real, popular names you can find in the name registry and have all been used at least 5 times since 2000. Probably.
>>221067279Also our president's funny LAST name is "Tree Stump".
>>221067279>>(Concept of) LifeIsnt that a R.E.M. song?
>>221064998did you in know that Japanese is much like German? Where in simpleton countries they'd call something like an indoor man who masturbates furiously an indoor man who masturbates furiously, in Germany and Japan you have unique words for such things like anindoormanwhomasturbatesfuriously, anincrediblesensationofoverwhelminghstupor isn't it?
>>221067407japanese and German are only a like by naming things literally like you see them. Like we call Turtles "shield toads" or japanese call animals "moving things" but japanese isnt much of a compound workd language like german. German is very nuanced and japanese is very context based and Japanese also loves to shorten things which is the opposite in German
>>221067484Germans love abbreviations even in official documents though. Because those five-part compound words get a bit cumbersome.
