I assume the designer of that interface literally ran 'Begin' instead of 'Start' into the translation engine of google as it spits out ベギン.

Ironically, the Kanji in the first option would have worked as well for the Japanese option.

Helepolis said:

I assume the designer of that interface literally ran 'Begin' instead of 'Start' into the translation engine of google as it spits out ベギン.

Quite likely. No wonder Kogasa is staring at it so intently.

Finally, some simplified Mandarin! Was never comfortable with the traditional script since most of the world (my country included) uses the simplified script.

And is this something that was recently introduced? The last time I visited Taiwan (8 years ago), everything was in traditional script only. Signs, noticeboards, self-service kiosks, you name it.

TL note: 翌日 gave me some problems. We almost never ever use this term to describe the following day until it occurred to me that this is a Japanese 4koma. -_-

TL note 2: I have never seen 空港 being used to describe an airport. Turns out Mizuki-sensei was combining the hanzi for the airport's name with kanji, making it really confusing. I wish he'd use 桃園國際機場 instead.

Etnaz said:

TL note: 翌日 gave me some problems. We almost never ever use this term to describe the following day until it occurred to me that this is a Japanese 4koma. -_-

TL note 2: I have never seen 空港 being used to describe an airport. Turns out Mizuki-sensei was combining the hanzi for the airport's name with kanji, making it really confusing. I wish he'd use 桃園國際機場 instead.

Because he's writing in Japanese, for a Japanese audience. Not Chinese. 「桃園國際機場」 will instead look like "Peach Garden International Textile Factory" to a Japanese (機場 means "loomery", a place with looms [i.e. cloth-weaving machines] in Japanese).

For similar reasons, a Chinese author (or blogger) will write Narita Airport as "成田国际机场" (or 成田國際機場), not "成田国際空港", because to a Chinese the latter instead sounds like some "empty seaport" in Narita.

(空港 as airport does have a pseudo-valid non-standard use in heavily Japanese influenced places though).

Likewise, a French article mentioning Heathrow will use "aéroport de Heathrow" (or aéroport de Londres-Heathrow) instead of "Heathrow Airport".

I'm sorry to say this, but if 翌日 and 空港 (both very basic Japanese words) are giving you problems (and you are relying solely on your knowledge of Chinese as a crutch) you should kindly refrain from translating Japanese text.

@Matamatik: What's with those gibberish in the note history? Did you someone mess around with your computer when you left it unlocked?

NNescio said:

Because he's writing in Japanese, for a Japanese audience. Not Chinese. 「桃園國際機場」 will instead look like "Peach Garden International Textile Factory" to a Japanese (機場 means "loomery", a place with looms [i.e. cloth-weaving machines] in Japanese).

For similar reasons, a Chinese author (or blogger) will write Narita Airport as "成田国际机场" (or 成田國際機場), not "成田国際空港", because to a Chinese the latter instead sounds like some "empty seaport" in Narita.

(空港 as airport does have a pseudo-valid non-standard use in heavily Japanese influenced places though).

Likewise, a French article mentioning Heathrow will use "aéroport de Heathrow" (or aéroport de Londres-Heathrow) instead of "Heathrow Airport".

I'm sorry to say this, but if 翌日 and 空港 (both very basic Japanese words) are giving you problems (and you are relying solely on your knowledge of Chinese as a crutch) you should kindly refrain from translating Japanese text.

@Matamatik: What's with those gibberish in the note history? Did you someone mess around with your computer when you left it unlocked?

IN the past 4komas, Mizuki had always left the Chinese names of the various places he visited in Taiwan intact, hanzi and all. That was the basis I was working with when translating the text for 翌日 成田国際空港.

Yes yes i know, the whole assumption = ass-u-me.

Etnaz said:

IN the past 4komas, Mizuki had always left the Chinese names of the various places he visited in Taiwan intact, hanzi and all. That was the basis I was working with when translating the text for 翌日 成田国際空港.

Yes yes i know, the whole assumption = ass-u-me.

Your assumption is based on false premises.

翌日 has been consistently used before (because most of this comic is basically an illustrated travelogue, so the word "next day" will inevitably pop up again and again.) Functional nouns like 站 (station) also get translated into 駅. See post #3192269, post #3193387 (the scribbles on the map), post #2769417.

(Don't count the Hong Kong trip examples because they sometimes do use 駅 semi-officially there)

For 空港 as airport, there's post #2345006 (Hong Kong), post #2341218(Taoyuan), post #2112401(Taoyuan again) post #2108553 (ditto), post #2093599 (man, he sure likes stopping at TPE)...

The functional noun component of place names (e.g. station, airport, city, district, etc.) will almost always be translated, because leaving it in is like leaving in "keikaku" for "Just as keikaku".

Etnaz said:

TL note: 翌日 gave me some problems. We almost never ever use this term to describe the following day until it occurred to me that this is a Japanese 4koma. -_-

In bilibili I've seen Chinese player reading 翌日 with li'ri (And flowed the comments saying "yi'ri") when he was playing 零之軌跡. At that time I learned the word is obsolete in Mandarin. (looks like not so obsolete in the south, though.)

Aside from the fact that it's in Katakana for no real reason, part of the joke is that it should be ビギン instead of the (nonsense) ベギン.

NNescio said:

@Matamatik: What's with those gibberish in the note history? Did you someone mess around with your computer when you left it unlocked?

Ah sorry, I was going to attempt a translation, but gave up and then it wouldn't let me delete the notes I made unless I wrote something.

Matamatik said:

Ah sorry, I was going to attempt a translation, but gave up and then it wouldn't let me delete the notes I made unless I wrote something.

If you don't type anything into a note, then it hasn't been saved yet, so it technically doesn't exist and there's nothing to delete. Just reload the page, and the unfilled note boxes should disappear.

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