#but that’s the CoRrEcT pronunciation lol

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

Buc-ee's is not pronounced bussy. You'll get your ass kicked if you do that. Looking out for your safety here.

okay so i hear you… but what if i’m feeling ✨adventurous✨ and wanna test my luck..???

#ty for looking out for my safety anon I appreciate it #and I know it’s the wrong pronunciation….but it feels so right lol #(i’d actually never utter that pronunciation irl bc you are so correct…but still let me appear to be brave on here lol) #ask #the hellsite answers #anonymous #hellsite hall of fame curator’s bullshit #bucees #buc-ee’s #bucee’s

[hellofeternity]

ORV transcends language | how ORV is kind to readers (1.1k words)

the difficulties in analyzing text are already numerous without a language barrier, the way one word can mean 5 things and when you put it in a sentence suddenly it can mean 50 things and put that sentence in a paragraph? go further and put that paragraph in a page? construct a whole world around it, weave it into the fabric, and suddenly you are painting with words.

ORV is a daunting text, it calls and references so many mythos world wide, greek, roman, indian, chinese, japanese, it plays with meaning and intent and uses gaps in our knowledge like weapons, making us extrapolate our own meaning between the sentences, it is a tome of knowledge when it comes to histories and philosophies it feels at times like I will never understand all these things inside it.

One of the difficulties of reading a translated text is that when we analyze a text the authorial intent weighs very heavily in our minds, sure we can immerse ourselves in the world but once we start picking apart at the threads we hit a wall pretty soon when we start asking ourselves "what did the author mean by this?" however in a translated text there is an obvious gap, a game of telephone, did the translator actually capture the authors intent? or are we just reading the translators perception? sadly I don't know korean, and I cant say I have the drive to learn it, as such I know there will forever be a side of ORV that I will never be privy to - however I am bilingual and had the pleasure of reading two translated versions of ORV, an English translation and an Arabic translation, I didn't finish reading the said Arabic translation but a couple things stood out to me when I briefly did ORV is very kind to readers, following along in other stories can seem confusing at times, the pacing might be too fast and you might miss some details in a characters actions, the wording might be too vague and ah damn 20 pages later you realize you don't actually know why the characters are doing what they are doing. A big writing adage that you will see a lot is "show dont tell" and it holds merit, but ORV doesn't subscribe to it, because ORV shows AND tells. ORV built a world around readers and reading, and it makes sure that there is clarity every step of the way on what is happening, first by starting out as a homage to the isekai genre, and not deviating too much at the start, making the readers feel at home in a worldview they are familiar with, systems, leveling, videos games etc, and when it starts deviating it explains things with clarity that no matter how bad the translation is you understand the general intent, and secondly by being VERY blatant about the names of things and having a built in "story" system that is built on common story tropes and names the themes for you! take for example "unbroken faith" and "Blade of faith" both of these are two translated versions of dokja's sword. I will never know which one is closer to the original authorial intent, but I can tell you something, dokja's sword is symbolism to the faith he is wielding. (CH386 vague spoilers) or the entirety of "the great war of saints and demons" being about the concept of good and evil fighting and how kimcom aren't just above being good and evil, they are both. By using story tropes that we are familiar with to explain the complexity of situations in a simple forms you no longer have to worry about losing you readers understandings through language barriers. Every story in the world in every language knows what good vs evil is, every language has the words to explain them. and therein lies the beauty of ORV. But of course this isn't to say translations don't matter, it does speak to the strength of an original texts clarity when it accounts for the big things by making them simplified, but when we get down to the nitty gritty it starts to lose form take for example

"Tell me, you fool. If I continue to regress, will I ever get to meet you again?"

this person here has a great write up explaining the translators thoughts behind this specific line

but it has spawned a lot of debate in the English speaking fandom, as to the strength of its translation, I remember when I first saw someone claiming that its a mistranslation and "you fool" isn't part of the original, my first thought was "and so?" I do not mean to be dismissive to the original text, but I do not exist in a space where I can appreciate it in the original korean, I do not exist in a worldview where I can understand the historical implications of a lot of the characters, and even when I try to research it in English sadly the resources do not exist yet and its even more laughable to think of finding these things in Arabic. (Goryeos first sword doesn't have an English wikipedia page as a clear example) a lot of people have issues with the most popular English fantranslation of ORV - and I can understand why, being bilingual I have a lot of opinions on how a lot of things SHOULD be translated most of the time, and have done my own translation work but as I sit and think about this popular translation I cant help but just feel love for it, it might be lacking to some, it might be inaccurate at times to others, but its just enough for me to paint the gaps in the text with my perceptions, the words used are tied to my affections the Arabic translation of ORV is clunky, it is messy, it doesn't have as much grace as the English translation of ORV does, the words barely string together cohesively, but it has enough clarity, enough intent, and enough love for its readers, to catch their hearts, their attention and their energy

and so I want this to be the first post on this blog because, the author is dead here, not because I buried them, but because the tower of babel fell down a long time ago, and all we have is rubble and each other. a lot of the analysis on this blog will try to be respectful to the korean original wherever it can, however my words will be coming from an anglosphere perspective, and build on other English reader's perceptions of a text translation that a decent amount of people don't think is adequate, but just like ORV is kind to us, we can be kind back, I will quote the most popular version because its what connects us together, and while the authors intent might be lost, we can share our own meanings with each other, and build our own intent from the rubble.

#orv meta #orv #orv analysis #r1864 #a big wall of text for me to go lol orv is queer and yjh is trans coded #but this is tumblr so everyone knows that already #also I still don't actually know what naming convention is correct I've seen many discussions about this #I just go with what is most popular for ease of understanding and ease of reading #also i find the naming thing very funny in english and latin letters because there isnt nearly this much drama about it in the arabic scrip #I just assume its like any other language that doesnt use latin and we are just trying to break english to sound out letters they dont have #i do like how dokjas name sounds like its splitting in the middle in the correct pronunciation 'dok-ja' adds to his duality #and i am sad that gets lost in the latin script sounding

[deanpinterester]

#uhhhh me #pjo #percy jackson #thalia grace #i went though a bit of a journey with this #at first i said THAHlia #because i thought the 'correct' pronunciation (according to a mythology book i was reading) of thaLIEa was dumb #but now that's how i pronounce it lol

[mlarayoukai]

#For the record reg ice is the correct pronunciation #But I say regi ice and no one has said anything lol #rob.txt

[pariaritzia]

AN ACTION HERO (2022)

#bollywood #an action hero #ayushmann khurrana #jaideep ahlawat #this movie was so fun. the parody of bollywood action movies and bollywood in general. the references. the music #the subtitles were struggling so much for this part lmao #reminded me of in qala when majrooh corrects qala's pronunciation of the urdu kh #and the subtitle just makes up a totally different joke unrelated to the topic lol #so much wordplay gets lost in translation..sigh....makes me sad about how much I miss when I watch languages I don't know #anyway #adventures in gifmaking

[spoofthespoofer]

Now that Halloween is coming up, I'd like to gently remind people of something!

If you want to call Halloween by it's original celtic name, Samhain, please learn the correct pronunciation!

It is not pronounced 'Sam-Hayne'!

It is pronounced as 'Sow (as in 'cow')- in!' Like 'Sow-in'!

I get the spelling is weird! Irish is weird! We are well aware of this! :D

#Sincerely #-An Irish person who speaks Irish #well not like fluently #but Im in a higher level Irish class and I understand the pronunciation lol #Someone kept correcting someone and clsiming it was pronounced 'Sam-hayne' today and it really annoyed me for some reason #Its okay to make mistakes! Just don't try and CORRECT someone if youre not 100% sure that youre correct! #:)

[omegalomania]

heres a tiny axolotl patrick

#*mine #*art #no reason for this besides the fact that im procrastinating on this page and have wanted to draw this for a while lol #also practiced doing the correct pronunciation for axolotl while i did this and it was fun #id in the alt text

[hylorien]

starting a rdr2 fic where everything is the same except Molly has an Irish friend that runs away with her and takes the shot for her and they run away and become lovers ♡

#this has been on my mind for over a year lol i figure its finally time to do smth w my oc #Ailbhe Sullivan is her name #in this au Molly's name is spelled Mallaidh but she Ailbhe and Sean are the only ones to use the correct pronunciation #rdr2 #rdr2 oc #molly o'shea

[fatsmyname]

do you pronounce it like ro-mee-oh or ro-mey-oh ?I assume the latter bc thatsnhow I say it but then I was thinking about how I say “ro-mee-oh and julliet “ when referring to the play and. well I think you can see the faint outline of my mouse brain at work here.

LMFAO I say it ro-meh-oh in my head cuz I’m pronouncing it with a Spanish accent. So yea the latter! Ro-mee-oh is fine tho I often say it that way cuz people are annoying about pronouncing it right lol

#anon #the dilemma of having an ethnic name and never correcting ppl on how to pronounce it lol #trying to be better at it but 😐 yknow how it is #tho I hold the Spanish pronunciation dear to me because I think it sounds sweeter and way more mature that way #as opposed to romeo oh romeo where art tho romeo shit #idk

[satanfemme]

I forgot to say but last night I decided on a name for my fursona: Łucja :3c

#it's pronounced like ''woo-tsya'' (it's polish like me lol) #u can also call him by the english pronunciation lucia and I won't be mad. but łucja is gonna be the correct one #it means light ^_^ also there's a saint lucia which is fun

[yukinyaminyato]

tfw the doctor pronounces ur surname wrong & u just have to be like hmm i guess that means me. 😐

#as if sitting in the waiting room wasn't stressful enough by itself. trying to concentrate on when u'll hear ur name. #also the doctor was late which meant i was feeling v anxious already <3 #if i was swedish or smth the pronunciation would have been correct (maybe? a swedish teacher has butchered my name differently lol) #it always amazes me how much confusion my surname can cause even tho it's not even difficult.... #rlly looking forward to how professors are gonna pronounce it in italy 🥴🥴🥴 #my posts

[buckttommy]

listening to a podfic: yay!

me (having had three years of latin) listening to her try to read the lord's prayer in latin: unyay!

#This is not meant to be mean or anything AT ALL btw #This is not judgment or criticism #because her podfic is actually really well done #I just ! cannot un-Latin my brain I'm afraid #Every time people speak or read Latin #I hear my Latin teacher's voice in my head correcting the pronunciation #It's very distracting lol

[lisanamjoon]

this person just spelled shawn mendes as “sean mendez” and it’s taking everything in me not to correct them lmao

#it makes me so uncomfortable when people spell someone’s name wrong lol #if i’m unsure of a spelling i will google it before posting whatever #and it’s weird that some people don’t?? idk lol #i just feel like it’s so important to spell someone’s name correctly ya know #and learn the correct pronunciation

[drysauce]

the italianization of the fool

#im sure they used to pronounce it correctly what happened hshhdhs #bro went from being german to being chinese to being italian #or maybe this IS the correct pronunciation?? i need to do that quest and make a judgement myself ig lol

[convxction]

[looks into my blogs. inbox is full of good things to get my brain motivated to write. thanks chris and pelleas for always sending chef kiss content. you can also send me chef kiss content if you want. the inbox is always open ~

today i will try to figure out a way to make a better interest check page thing for my multi since the one i have is .....................not good. and see to have a proper q on blogs weee

#⚔ooc.⚔ (faty speaks) #[i've been robbed of every entertainment because of the job. i just come back. sleep. wake up. correct papers. eat. suffer with talking #[to parents. eat then go back to sleep. #[i am ready to sleep at any time and i heard it means something is wrong wth my body but #[lol ye it is called being stressed and depressed i want to quit but atm i cant #[because there is no one else would fill my place and i dont want to cause trouble #[i dont like this job. i thought it would be like oh tough first two week but no. the school is not great #[the staff is ....eh....the headmistress is dumb she says something and do something else #[the owner / principal (?) we have two idk man ... she's....out of touch of the world #[and i hate that her husband stays in school like wtf just go away we need to move comfortably around and not seeing you #[in every corner ....jeez... #[also i hate that in one of the classroom there is a camera and i was trying to listen to one of the students' pronunciation and #[the headmisteress came in waltzing like a crazyed hyena telling me she is seeing children moving #[wel duh they are children they are going to move around i cant keep them glued to their seats jeez... #[yesterday was disaster. she sat to watch one of my classes as i taught them and then she took over like i dont exists there #[and she had the audacity to go to one of the teachers (a mom of one of the students) and told her that her daughter is 'dumb' #[the teacher hit her daughter and then came to me to ask and i told her that the crayzed hyena scared the shit out of the children #[they didnt know what to do so her daughter did nothing wrong #[i felt bad for the daughter;;;; #[anyway. i hate this job haha~ #tbd

[theghostofashton]

white people make even the tiniest bit of effort challenge :)

#that clip of the interview w mindy kaling is pissing me off lol #how are you gonna watch two seasons of a show where devi's name is SAID REPEATEDLY #and still mispronounce it #like ????? #it is pronounced over and over that's how it's said #correct pronunciation isn't a fucking suggestion #make the actual effort to say it right i know that's hard for y'all but maybe......our names isn't the place to be lazy lmfao #neha rambles