Twelvemonth

[DiaDeem]

[Akonyl]

I saw this topic before doing the event, and the only NPC that this felt even slightly odd with was the catgirl from the drowning wench. The other times were from the minstrel, which like, I feel like a mysterious bard NPC that's a stand-in for the director of the game has as much license as anyone would to start using weird words.

[CaptainLagbeard]

So we not only have a writing team that don't know the story they're writing on, but the new translation team is just making things up.

They do mistranslate a bunch of things... Playing the game with japanese audio due to voice casting choices we may or may not be allowed to discuss and knowing some basic stuff, you do occasionally hear phrases that don't match the text.

[Fredco191]

I found it weird, too. But I don't think it's worth freaking out over.

[Bellybell]

this sound like a child trying to proves their vocabularies knowledge from primary school already cover the entire dictionary

[sindriiisgaming]

It's called a year. Everyone in the entirety of Etheirys calls it a year. It has never been called a "Twelvemonth", that word has literally never appeared, even once, in the entirety of Final Fantasy XIV- I CHECKED.

So we not only have a writing team that don't know the story they're writing on, but the new translation team is just making things up.

This bodes well.

im going to be honest. right. this is a nothing burger. feels like your really in a bad place mentally with the current expansion if something this small is a bother to you, maybe its time to take a break or go do some pvp.

[CaptainLagbeard]

im going to be honest. right. this is a nothing burger. feels like your really in a bad place mentally with the current expansion if something this small is a bother to you, maybe its time to take a break or go do some pvp.

Is it pointless? Yes.
Is it stupid for the translators to randomly throw in words like that for no reason? Also yes.

[sindriiisgaming]

Is it pointless? Yes.
Is it stupid for the translators to randomly throw in words like that for no reason? Also yes.

must be a nightmare being a dev knowing that everything you try to do, good or bad will always have 5 people who hate it no matter what

[CaptainLagbeard]

must be a nightmare being a dev knowing that everything you try to do, good or bad will always have 5 people who hate it no matter what

All I want for them is to translate the text from Japanese to English. Is that too much to ask?

[Daralii]

All I want for them is to translate the text from Japanese to English. Is that too much to ask?

Yes. A lot of localizers have fat heads and want to make a transformative work of their own, because they're above simply translating.