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Myriad of Leaves

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A collection of 41 posts

Line Individualism - Boc

Heed the Spoiler Warning! Boc is the demi-human (read: goblin) seamer and manservant of the player, should they chose to save him during the game. He speaks like the greater half of the game’s cast in a Cornish English accent, and moreover he is the only demi-human that actually

Japanese RPG words – Ryuujin

HEED THE SPOILER WARNING! In Japanese fantasy oriented games and literature, we encounter from time to time anthropomorphic dragons. These are in part derived from much older Asian mythology, particularly that of the legendary dragon gods and kings of the ancient East, such as those appearing in the fairy tale

Bernahl's Line

SPOILERS ARE WITHIN THE POST In Elden Ring, during the last stages of Bernahl, a knight clad in ferocious armour and member of a secret order of assassins of the clandestine Volcano Manor, makes a solemn pledge against the omniscient presence known as the Great Will, the English lines are:

Silvered Ones

SPOILERS MAY OCCUR FOR ELDEN RING. In Elden Ring there is a race of amphibian like humanoids along with slightly more elfin ones much further off, apparently an older variety of them, whose name in the English translation is albanaurics. Later on in the game they are revealed to effectively

Elden Ring Spoilers - Name Allusions

From Software has a tradition of putting especial significance in their world building when it comes to structuring their role playing games, moreover, the latest instalment, Elden Ring only proves this. SPOILERS ARE BELOW, DO NOT PROCEED WITH READING IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED THE GAME, OR CARE FOR STORY

X-Men vs Street Fighter - Victory Quote Commentary

Capcom's fighting game X-Men vs Street Fighter was nothing less, but a cultural phenomenon in the arcade halls of both Japan and in the West, in the year of 1996 (and later home-releases in 1997 - 1998). Taking the cast of one of the most popular fighting game

Name Etymologies - Rock EXE series

One of my many interests when it comes to linguistics and especially also literature is that of personal names, when writing a story or a piece of media, the author(s) will some times create names that either are puns, homages or otherwise have significant meanings to either the personalities

Quick Post - Old Sport

In the seminal novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the titular character of Jay Gatsby is a showman and playboy whose ostentatious lifestyle draws the attention of the protagonist and narrator of the story, a young journalist called Nick Carraway, whose enquiries into the life and secrets of

New Year Post - Back to the Future

The year is drawing to a close and I thought I would include one last short translation comparison to round off the old year and herald the new year. What more fitting to do that than taking a look at two instrumental phrases from the science fiction trilogy Back to

Archaic language in SoulsBorne

The popular action RPGs by From Soft are famed for their fair if fierce difficulty and a minimalist approach to tutorials, rather wanting players to learn by experience rather than by obsequious text-boxes. Text is indeed the very bread and butter of this blog, though more specifically the dialogue. If

Hallowe'en Post - Darkstalkers

This quick and short obligatory All Hallow's Even post will be looking at a few interesting speech patterns from the horror-themed beat 'em up, Vampire. The roster boasts everything from ancient mummies to insectoid hive-mind demons that along with bizarre and unique move-sets - fighting game term

Gemming Your Pardon?

Here is a quickie in regards to discovery I made in terms of a weird if interesting variant way of writing an old polite imperative or optative mode of constructing a verb, namely tamau (たまう, "to beg [a superior] to grant [a wish]"), which is typically written with

The King of Fists and Pronouns

In this we will delve into how the concept of pronouns in Japanese or for that matter pronominals, and its relation to how our understanding of characters in a manga such as Hokuto no Ken (“Fist of the North Star”) may prove to show just how elastic the concept is

SNK and Samurai

SNK has a long and time-honoured tradition of "creative" translations and this is primarily concerned with their fighting games that were released during the nineties. Often these translations would reference American pop-culture, contain strange slang and sound completely unlike the line that was in the original. Inspired by

The Ægyptian Stork

The tale of the Ugly Duckling (Den Grimme Ælling) is perhaps Hans Christian Andersen's most famous tale - part autobiographical story about striving against the odds, and part celebration of the sublimity of nature. Whilst a full analysis of the linguistics and narrative elements of the fairy-tale in

Human-Cyborg Relations

When the golden android C-3PO introduces himself to Luke Skywalker in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, he uses a rather bizarre compound noun, one of a long series consisting of equally misused terms (an idea for a later blog entry): Already from the start we get the impression