dark souls can't into shakespeare

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dark souls can't into shakespeare Anonymous 2021-05-16 (Sun) 16:29:46 No.9139

What the fuck is going on with the localization for this game? Have any of these writers even actually read early modern English? You can't just stick "thee" or "thou" anywhere in a sentence. They have actual, specific grammatical functions and can't be interchanged randomly. "Thou" is always the subject of a sentence. "Thee" is always the object. "Thine" is possessive. It's honestly really embarrassing that this dumb brain shit is present in a game this big. I know you don't play the game for the dialogue but this is incredibly simple basic shit.

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 00:19:28 No.9140

I've never played this thing. Can you share some examples? Any translator worth their salt should be able to easily understand how to use thou.

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 00:30:31 No.9141

>Have any of these writers even actually read early modern English?
people who work in game design are usually the ones who, in high school, didn't pay any attention whatsoever in English class because they knew all they had to do was max out their grade in math, phys, and CS (but also because they were and continue to be pathetic cultureless robotbrains)

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 01:24:13 No.9144

>>9139
>game this big
at its release it wasn't even AAA really, it was a followup to a cult classic
DS2 on is more fair game for that imho

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 01:25:36 No.9145

>>9141
The people I know who wanted to be game designers were equally bad at math, science, and literature.

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 01:48:02 No.9146

>>9145
whoops, you were right. i was confusing them for the actual CS kids. but you get the idea

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 17:23:01 No.9154

>>9140
Actually looking back the problem is mostly with the verb forms:
>Thou shall endeth this eternal twilight, and avert further Undead sacrifices.
The correct way to say this would be "thou shalt end"
>O chosen Undead. Thou hath journey'd far.
Another verb disagreement. Should be "thou hast"
>thou should assume, and inheriteth the Fire of our world. Thou shall endeth this eternal twilight, and avert further Undead sacrifices.
Should be "thou shouldst" and them "thou shalt end"
I'm pretty sure there are some actual thee/thou confusions, but I can't remember the characters that would have done so.

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 17:27:10 No.9155

OP is a faggot, it's spelled "you" but prounounced "thou". y in ye olde english made a "th" sound

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 18:12:21 No.9156

>>9154
Also "inheriteth" should be "inherit"

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 22:16:51 No.9157

>>9155
there was no y in old english, the "th" sound is represented by the thorn character, ð or þ

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 22:33:10 No.9159

>>9155
Extremely incorrect.
>>9157
Either way, we're talking about early modern english here, not old english.

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 23:14:03 No.9160

OP ye olde fagotte
whatt have we donne
to deserve such
ghey þreadde

Anonymous 2021-05-18 (Tue) 02:43:07 No.9162

>>9160
I grinned, I admit it.

Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 20:23:45 No.9517

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>>9139
I think it's going for King James Bible, not Shakespeare.

Dark Souls dialogue is much more
>The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
>He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
>He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
>Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
>Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
>Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Or
>In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
>And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
>And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
>And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
>And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
than it is
<To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
<The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
<Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
<And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
<No more; and by a sleep to say we end
<The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
<That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
<Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
<To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
<For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
<When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
<Must give us pause—there's the respect
<That makes calamity of so long life.

Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 22:18:31 No.9521

>>9139
haveth sex

Anonymous 2021-05-29 (Sat) 06:55:48 No.9534

>>9521
Get thee to a nunnery.

The People's Hog 2021-05-31 (Mon) 01:44:49 No.9577

>>9517
The problem isn't the style, but the grammar itself. Surely somebody who knew how that kind of english works should have proofed it.

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