Miniguide to Autotranslate: Usage and potential pitfalls

[Kiara]

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.

Except the issue is that the far more prevalent usage by English-speaking players of {Take care.} *is* the "Goodbye"-type meaning.

If the vast majority of FF XIV players were, say, Role-Players or those being more "proper" or "formal," there might be a case for leaving it, but I've *never* seen {Take care.} used even *once* in the Auto-Translated meaning of "Be careful" in 2.0.

Not once.

And it definitely matters for Bilingual / International Servers.

[Sylkis]

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 one that I forgot to put in. This is a relic from XI.

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)?

There's no good auto translate that I know of for that. As for donmai, it only came to me when a JP player typed don't mind in English. They use it quite often... There's no auto for it.
EDIT: How about B {The Hunt} {Where?}

I need to find a more general guide of helpful tips for using the auto translate feature. I just recently switched to mainly playing on my ps4 and im already thinking i NEED a wireless keyboard to be able to communicate properly. I dont know how to go about explaining "this is my first time in this dungeon" or "please explain boss fights im new" or anything like that. There's other instances but yeah, any ideas of a good general guide for using autotranslate or maybe even some communication macros?

There's an auto for "this is my first time here", I will look for it when I get in the game. There's none for explain the fight to me, and it makes sense because the reply you get won't be in auto translate, so you might as well make a macro in plain text.
All you really need is {let's do it} and {good game} for running anything.

[Sadana]

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There's no good auto translate that I know of for that. As for donmai, it only came to me when a JP player typed don't mind in English. They use it quite often... There's no auto for it.
EDIT: How about B {The Hunt} {Where?}

Apologies for not being clear, I mean there SHOULD be things like this in the auto translate dictionary. xD
We really should have something like "It's ok" or "No problem" to cover donmai.
Could use "You can go ahead and start" too. >< Do we have an EN phrase for "I'm going" (行きます)?

I tried using JP input for a while to put into practice the teensy bit of JP I know, but the punctuation being moved on the keyboard really messed me up so I changed back to EN input only. :/

I need to find a more general guide of helpful tips for using the auto translate feature. I just recently switched to mainly playing on my ps4 and im already thinking i NEED a wireless keyboard to be able to communicate properly. I dont know how to go about explaining "this is my first time in this dungeon" or "please explain boss fights im new" or anything like that. There's other instances but yeah, any ideas of a good general guide for using autotranslate or maybe even some communication macros?

Yes, you need (imo) a wireless keyboard for your console. There are those who use the screen keyboard, but it's so frustratingly slow they can't keep up with chat. Just go get a cheap 10 buck keyboard from an office store, you don't need anything fancy.

[Ultear_Milkovich]

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.>

This is correct (french player here).

This "take care" is something i like to use as a warning in the french version. For example , when i have a debuff on, with healer not doing anything, i usually pop :

WHM "(take care)" debuff

Because in french this means "whm pay attention to debuff" (obviously im not doing that if the said healer is speaking english ofc XD)

[Canadane]

The phrase "Take care" is rather bizarre that it's become a general non-warning way of saying goodbye in English now.
Whereas the words themselves do convey a cautionary advice to them. It's just the way language evolves I guess.

[Bruiser_Cruiser]

I need to find a more general guide of helpful tips for using the auto translate feature. I just recently switched to mainly playing on my ps4 and im already thinking i NEED a wireless keyboard to be able to communicate properly. I dont know how to go about explaining "this is my first time in this dungeon" or "please explain boss fights im new" or anything like that. There's other instances but yeah, any ideas of a good general guide for using autotranslate or maybe even some communication macros?

[Sylkis]

I need to find a more general guide of helpful tips for using the auto translate feature. I just recently switched to mainly playing on my ps4 and im already thinking i NEED a wireless keyboard to be able to communicate properly. I dont know how to go about explaining "this is my first time in this dungeon" or "please explain boss fights im new" or anything like that. There's other instances but yeah, any ideas of a good general guide for using autotranslate or maybe even some communication macros?

{This is my first time.} -> {ここに来るのは初めてです。}
Use this

[Cutie_McSnuggles]

I wish the localization team would work on the auto translate feature a bit more. There are some really bizarre things in there or translations that don't carry over. There are also lots of things missing that many people would consider important. But something tells me this is going to be one of those things that will never get the attention it deserves. A: because its a lot more complicated then it appears. B: It's probably not widely used enough to matter that much to most people.

[mbncd]

I'm just glad that the old 1.xx auto translate word "mine" is gone now. That one always confused me as it could mean an action (as in "I'm going to mine this node"), a place ("there's gold in that mine") or ownership ("This is mine"). No one from other languages would ever tell me which it really meant and as it was a single word without any sort of context it bugged me a lot >_>

[nuyu11]

Ok.. I think I need a proper guide, Because I'm in Masamune and we are the Gaijin here.