How do they translate 'Urianger speak' into other languages?

How do they deal with all the ye olde English in other languages? Does it get translated to ye olde Japanese for example, or do they do something else?

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Originally Posted by JTF-Taru

How do they deal with all the ye olde English in other languages? Does it get translated to ye olde Japanese for example, or do they do something else?

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My understanding from my japanese speaking friends descriptions is basically that. He speaks in VERY old style/dialect using exceedingly formal words most of the time.

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Originally Posted by JTF-Taru

ye olde English

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If a layperson can understand it, it's not old English. English has changed so much since old English that to understand it you would need at least some training in historical linguistics or specific study in old English.

Urianger's vocabulary is even more archaic than the rest of the cast, but it's still just English.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

If a layperson can understand it, it's not old English. English has changed so much since old English that to understand it you would need at least some training in historical linguistics or specific study in old English.

Urianger's vocabulary is even more archaic than the rest of the cast, but it's still just English.

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#ACKSHUALLY

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Originally Posted by Rongway

If a layperson can understand it, it's not old English. English has changed so much since old English that to understand it you would need at least some training in historical linguistics or specific study in old English.

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As someone who has specificallg studied Old English and read OG Chaucer and Shakespeare in their original form, can confirm.
This is accurate.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

If a layperson can understand it, it's not old English. English has changed so much since old English that to understand it you would need at least some training in historical linguistics or specific study in old English.

Urianger's vocabulary is even more archaic than the rest of the cast, but it's still just English.

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Yeah. His word use is...eccentric, but I have no problems following everything he says.

Broadly speaking, when someone says "ye olde english", they are refering to the trope, not the language. It's shorter than saying "do they do the equivalent to saying thee and thou and putting e at the end of words we haven't done in centuries?"

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Originally Posted by ChazNatlo

Broadly speaking, when someone says "ye olde english", they are refering to the trope, not the language. It's shorter than saying "do they do the equivalent to saying thee and thou and putting e at the end of words we haven't done in centuries?"

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Sure, but some people also don't understand that the trope is not Old English. We still get the occasional "what's with all the old english?" in both the Novice Network and the localization forum.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Yeah. His word use is...eccentric, but I have no problems following everything he says.

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As for me, usually there is no problem...until he says something like "puissant". Never would have guessed what it meant without looking it up.

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Originally Posted by Misplaced_Marbles

As for me, usually there is no problem...until he says something like "puissant". Never would have guessed what it meant without looking it up.

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It's not a terrible thing to have to stop and look up a dictionary sometimes, though. It expands your vocabulary. :)