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Reply to Star Control: Origins - Localization Update Now Available in Star Control News Stardock Forums

Taking the point on the neediness. That is a better read of what they are doing than mine was, and I would not have got there on my own. What I would hold on to is that the neediness comes out in how much they say. They do not stop. Part of the joke is that the speech keeps going past the point where a normal person would let you leave. That is pacing rather than wordplay, and pacing is one of the first things to go when a line has to fit the same space in a language that needs more r

Reply to Star Control: Origins - Localization Update Now Available in Star Control News Stardock Forums

Good to see this one get a pass. The writing in Origins must be miserable to translate and I do not envy whoever drew the job. Half the humour is in rhythm rather than meaning. The Tywom in particular are doing a bit, and a bit does not survive being converted word for word. You end up with correct sentences and a dead joke. So I hope the translators were given room to rewrite rather than just correct. If a pun does not exist in Finnish then the right answer is a different Finni