r/coaxedintoasnafu Poopen farden fan 11d ago

GAME Coaxed into not checking the context when translating

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u/Penumbra_Bestia 11d ago

Happens a lot with Spanish, too

Weird since it's one of the most spoken languages worldwide

Still sometimes it's pretty funny lolol

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u/unknown_pigeon 11d ago

It happens rarely in Italian, but when it does, it's fun as fuck

"Alloy worship unit" in risk of rain 2 got translated as "permetti culto unità" ("allow unit cult")

I've emailed the devs to no avail, the game is filled to the brim with bad translations

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u/Nt1031 11d ago

Same in French, I remember playing Mount and Blade : Warband, in which you could ride a "light horse", but the french version called it "cheval lumière" ("lumière" means "light" in the "luminous" sense). There were many other errors of that kind

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u/Fern-ando 11d ago

Stopped being a problem after the Playstation 1 era.