Translation Help Thread

[You]

so owner isnt "proper" noun

also would

knight of an owner or
knight of the owner or
knight of owners

be correct

All those mean that Lancelot is someone who owns him's knight

[castor212]

https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...un-vs-nounnoun

this isnt talking about the noun tho

still dun get why owner isnt a proper noun

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or is it just that its a rule noun like owner or teacher has to be preceded with the and concept like ownership and owner doesnt have to

[Arashi_Leonhart]

mew's proper noun thing threw you, it doesn't have to be a proper noun, but by being a proper noun it can ignore some of the rules

[castor212]

so it's

speshul

[GundamFSN]

this isnt talking about the noun tho

still dun get why owner isnt a proper noun

Because in English, owner is a common noun (general items, i.e. writer, girlfriend) as opposed to proper noun (specific name of things, which are written in caps, i.e. Starbucks, McDonald).

[castor212]

*insert revelation-related meme here*

[canaki]

You're generating crit stars for Lancelot, through thinking about Lancelot's NP name? Very eco.

[castor212]

i swear it was accidental officer

[mewarmo990]

all that said

Knight of Honor is fine.

[Quibi]

How would you translate this person's handle: 黒衛門
https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=598731
I mean she(?) introduces herself (bottom of the page) as クロエ which is Chloe I think, so maybe Chloemon?
Context: she contributed a wallpaper to HA and I need some English TL. I found all other guys names with pronunciation on social media/wiki, but this one is impossible
There's also a twitter linked there if you wanna dig further.

[canaki]

Her twitter username is cloe, she picked cloe as her webpage's subdomain.
I'd say she considers herself to be "cloe" even if it's not how you would write Chloe in English.

[fumei]

Hope this is the proper place for this thread, but...

Are 議決 and 裁決 more or less interchangeable in Japanese? I understand their meaning, but whether they are used to refer to the same (or very similar) things is beyond me at this point.
I ask because the former is used for Jeanne's 神明議決 skill in Apocrypha mats, while in FGO both Jeanne's and Shirou's skills are written as 神明裁決, so unsure if there's some subtle difference I'm not seeing or not.

[canaki]

I imagine something like congress with people yelling their opinions when I read 議決, and something like a court with stuffy judges for 裁決.

[fumei]

So something like similar meanings, different contexts? Makes sense.

Thanks.

[Criarino]

well I dont want to bother but... can someone translate two short +18 doujinshi for me? You dont even need to edit, only tell me what is written...

[castor212]

can someone help me on this one?

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the second sentence from below, is that a カタ or 力夕? Actually either case i dont what that means and consequently dont get whats being said here past "if you go out, then...."

thanks in advance

[canaki]

カタがつく is basically 片付く; I might say ケリがつく as a synonym.

[castor212]

oh so basically "if you go out and take care of this things will end too soon" or smtg along that line?

[Quibi]

So they added another question in Illya's Castle QA corner in the vita, and I'm not sure how to translate it:
返事は５０・８０・よろこんで！
Seems to reference this CM:

Spoiler:

The answer to the question is:

Spoiler:

true

I mean literally it's pretty nonsensical, even with the 46/yorokonde play...

[castor212]

moonruners

how would you differentiate between 加護 (like the ones on the pharaohs) and 護り (like the one on Eresh)
i know the former is protection from higher lifeform like gods and buddhas and what not, while the latter is just protection, but in translation whats best way to put them and differentiate between the two? Calling it Divine Protection and Protection respectively feels somewhat inaccurate for some reason.