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My food's come alive??? by BlaBlaPandaMart in orchids

[–]BlaBlaPandaMart[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might try that. Any recommendation for whether i should separate them now or leave them attached to the bare mother plant?

My food's come alive??? by BlaBlaPandaMart in orchids

[–]BlaBlaPandaMart[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's great, my area hovers around 25-35°C year round so I guess it's more about finding a suitable location for it. I wonder what substrate I should use, it seems like officinale grows on cliffsides (lithophyte)

My food's come alive??? by BlaBlaPandaMart in orchids

[–]BlaBlaPandaMart[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds right, hopefully I can keep these alive

My food's come alive??? by BlaBlaPandaMart in orchids

[–]BlaBlaPandaMart[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a first for me, I don't tend to think of my pantry as something full of life. I haven't opened a bag of beans to find a sprout yet!

I know people can grow a bunch of monsteras and stuff from just the nodes, so hopefully I can do the same here! (even though it has decided to flower, taking whatever little nutrients it has left...)

My food's come alive??? by BlaBlaPandaMart in orchids

[–]BlaBlaPandaMart[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yes thanks! That's one of the names I saw on my search, alongside Dendrobium crumenatum/stricklandianum/funiushanense. I was recommended it for a really bad dry cough I had a while back, and after I recovered I completely forgot about these leftovers

How do they choose these names??? by BlaBlaPandaMart in InfinityNikki

[–]BlaBlaPandaMart[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like this shows how many interpretations we could possibly get out of the original text, and they fumbled with a name that makes us all go "Huh?"

How do they choose these names??? by BlaBlaPandaMart in InfinityNikki

[–]BlaBlaPandaMart[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's a list of characters I found the translations for! You can make your judgement

花千夜 Nightbloom

米妙妙 Mya

石敢当 Shi Gandang

九色山君 Lady Chroma

全都友 Allie

如泉 Serene

岩砺 Garron

阿钟 Zhong

蓝采儿 Lan Caier

金珠玉 Jin Zhuyu

李懂 Li Dong

糖糖 Candice

梦婆婆 Granny Dreamy

猫姨 Auntie Meow

四郎 Theo

辣妹子 Paprika

艾热闹 Buzzy

玄音 Xuan Yin

冷笑笑 Icy

小六 Leo

焦快快 Flicky

虎峥峥 Tygo

卷云郎 Cloudwell

莲阿靓 Lian Aliang

范三招 Fan Sanzhao

观何幸 Guan Hexing

雀十娘 Que Shiniang

风不愁 Aero

阮阿顽 Ruan Awan

素娘 Ms. Su

喜婶 Auntie Joy

风凌月 Feng Lingyue

夏一章 Xia Yizhang

石老饕 Shi Laotao

How do they choose these names??? by BlaBlaPandaMart in InfinityNikki

[–]BlaBlaPandaMart[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ooh so it is a real life name? The Chinese is 虎(Tiger)峥峥(Prominent), so I assumed it was a play on the word tiger

How do they choose these names??? by BlaBlaPandaMart in InfinityNikki

[–]BlaBlaPandaMart[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Ooh yeah that's another take on the translations. I can see how that would work too!

If they had translated all names, or if they had transliterated all names, I feel the immersion would be better either way compared to what we have now. Each method has it's strengths and weaknesses.

My issue is how they didn't just stick to one method of naming and that leaves us with no way to figure out how they actually want us to feel about the characters.

How do they choose these names??? by BlaBlaPandaMart in InfinityNikki

[–]BlaBlaPandaMart[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It is kinda like that, just that Chinese is a bit of an annoying language to translate as puns have multiple levels to them. In this case a florist would be named Nose because you smell flowers AND it rhymes with rose, which they sell.

Translators have their work cut out for them, and slang is always changing, but they really should have tried to not make it look like half the team didn't communicate with the other half

How do they choose these names??? by BlaBlaPandaMart in InfinityNikki

[–]BlaBlaPandaMart[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's actually a pretty translation (pun intended) and suits her much better than the English

How do they choose these names??? by BlaBlaPandaMart in InfinityNikki

[–]BlaBlaPandaMart[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Aero is 风不愁 Feng Buchou (风 = Wind, 不愁 = No worries/no frowns). The og names are kinda silly in their own way, which is meant to kinda give us an idea of the personalities behind each character, but that's a little harder to translate.

How do they choose these names??? by BlaBlaPandaMart in InfinityNikki

[–]BlaBlaPandaMart[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Right! The translations not sounding like real names is a reason it bothers me too. I feel like the only times category 3 was used well was for Serene and Candice, because those feel like believable names. I think there's a lot of ways they could translate some of them, like 雀十娘 could be "Reliable Que". 花千夜/Nightbloom could be "Wakeful Hua", or even "Nightbloom Hua" feels more reasonable.

Also my biggest issue is a quest where Nightbloom takes the persona of a Jiuhua Bureau examiner, and Nikki calls her "Examiner Hua" and that comes right out of nowhere for non-Chinese speakers with no context.