Miniguide to Autotranslate: Usage and potential pitfalls

[Sylkis]

Not really it works in the morning too, just not the early morning ( starting from 9-10 am I think )

It's more like good day, but you don't use it early in the morning or late at night, while hello can be used any time of the day

[AskaRay]

Chewing the fat is just slang for "hanging out and talking"
essentially

sort of outdated slang, though. Honestly hadn't heard it in forever till I found it in the autotranslate dictionary....

[Grey_Cain]

So, what I'm getting out of this is that the English should actually read:
{Let's do it!} -> {よろしくお願いします！} -> A'ight, let's do this!
{Good game!} -> {お疲れ様でした。} -> gg everyone! gg
{Nice to meet you.} -> {はじめまして。} -> And you are...?
{Japanese} -> {日本語} -> Moon language
{Hello!} -> {こんにちは。} -> G'day mate!
{That's too bad.} -> {残念です。} -> Son, I am disappoint.
{You're welcome.} -> {どういたしまして。} -> It's all in the wrist.

[Sylkis]

{That's too bad.} -> {残念です。} -> Son, I am disappoint.

The thing to take away is that they can only be used in the way that the devs expect you to use it.
How the English should read depends on the context. How they read now is an ok approximation.

The one I quoted is wrong, it's more like you feel sorry for someone because they lost or missed something

Chewing the fat is just slang for "hanging out and talking"
essentially

sort of outdated slang, though. Honestly hadn't heard it in forever till I found it in the autotranslate dictionary....

It's sad to see that the JP counterpart is actually normal.
{I seem to have misplaced my keyboard} is I'm not using a keyboard and {we're chewing the fat} is we are just talking. Or something like that.

[Aeyis]

The one I quoted is wrong, it's more like you feel sorry for someone because they lost or missed something

Someone in your party (person b) loses a roll for an item by 1:

a:{残念です。}
a:{残念です。}
a:{残念です。}
b: ...
a:{どういたしまして。}

So, what I'm getting out of this is that the English should actually read:
{Let's do it!} -> {よろしくお願いします！} -> A'ight, let's do this!
{Good game!} -> {お疲れ様でした。} -> gg everyone! gg
{Nice to meet you.} -> {はじめまして。} -> And you are...?
{Japanese} -> {日本語} -> Moon language
{Hello!} -> {こんにちは。} -> G'day mate!
{That's too bad.} -> {残念です。} -> Son, I am disappoint.
{You're welcome.} -> {どういたしまして。} -> It's all in the wrist.

Those sound like those funny weird translations you sometimes get in machine translations, especially the last one.

[Sadana]

I just really wish we had something for:

"Excuse me from the party, I need to go now." A FC mate of mine said <Have stuff to do, gotta go!> sounds just as rude in JP as it does in EN. :/ While <Thank you.><Good game.> will do, it seems more "good work on that fight" and in English, it really doesn't convey the meaning of "I'll be going then...." ><;

"Have you seen it?" For B rank mobs. <Do you have it?> really doesn't do. :/

and is there something in the auto translate dictionary that equals ドンマイ (Don't mind)?

[reality_check]

On a side note, stop using <Take care.> at the end of dungeons. It translates into the French client as <Watch out.> or <Pay attention.>

[Niqote]

On a side note, stop using <Take care.> at the end of dungeons. It translates into the French client as <Watch out.> or <Pay attention.>

That's a good one...

{Be careful} would have been a better phrase.

[Kiara]

On a side note, stop using <Take care.> at the end of dungeons. It translates into the French client as <Watch out.> or <Pay attention.>

Thanks Jesse.

Ugh. Yah this one might be worth asking the Localization Team to change for English. As others have said, in English "Take care" is like "See you later. Take care"... kind of feel. But it's true it can also mean "Watch out" but it's not used that way as much currently.

[Aeyis]

Thanks Jesse.

Ugh. Yah this one might be worth asking the Localization Team to change for English. As others have said, in English "Take care" is like "See you later. Take care"... kind of feel. But it's true it can also mean "Watch out" but it's not used that way as much currently.

It's actual meaning is to be careful. It became used as a goodbye saying at some point tho. Since games with a fantasy setting often use language in a more proper way; I find no fault with this auto translate option.

All auto translaters are limited in their capacity for accuracy. They are ok for single words (usually) and basic sentances, anything more complex can fail miserably XD Due to auto translaters not able to convey the context of the original text, also grammer and sentence structure can be inacuratly translated thus making almost gibberish or translating to mean something different to your original intent.

Being multi-lingual it is kinda funny seeing some of the auto translations into languages I speak XD

The ingame auto-translate does not have those limitations. It does not actually translate.
It simply displays each corresponding option in the users client language.
That means each option is individually phrased or translated to ''mean the same thing'' regardless of grammar or sentence structure that one or another language's version may have.

Simply put, technically it is manual translation, not auto.

I wish that auto translate is same like Google translate.

That would create a whole new level of Crystal Tower Trolls.