English translation of Yoshida-san's letters is irritating

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Originally Posted by Zantetsuken

My point is that we don't need someone shielding us from the dangers of the word 'Easter', or 'Egg Hunt' either for that matter.

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I think they were trying to infuse a little bit of light-hearted humour with the Easter comment. They said half the word...the joke is that it's not actually 'Easter' in Eorzea. I chuckled. I'm sorry that you didn't.

...but you do bring some interesting light to the situation. I don't think this will change though because really...our languages communicate in such different styles that a direct translation would probably be incorrectly received by the audience and not convey the same style of message that was intended.

It's quite obvious that a 'Holiday event' at this time of year isn't likely to be Channukah with candles. Maybe this calls for more work on our deductive powers!

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Originally Posted by EdenT

I think they were trying to infuse a little bit of light-hearted humour with the Easter comment. They said half the word...the joke is that it's not actually 'Easter' in Eorzea. I chuckled. I'm sorry that you didn't.

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I thought this exact same thing. They are talking about Eorzean holidays so OBVIOUSLY our holidays don't correspond... hence the "slip". And not like 95% of English speakers know what the hell Children's Day is. Chill out.

These are very minor embellishments to what you claim his original statement was. (/shrug)

Feel free to ring the alarm when they start telling bald-faced lies. :rolleyes:

hmmm what translation is irritating?

the so called "Eas—errr"? I thought that he's trying to cover up the event name or something :|

I think it's charming :c