Topic: German translation issues

So it’s 2 for Kundschafter, 1 for Späher at the moment?

Next words (we really should decide on some soon…):

I translated the future term "garrison" with "Garnison". That sounds about right to me.
About the "blockhouse": The translation "Baracke" could be used for the future term "barracks", unless we want to translate that with "Kaserne", what would be fitting, too. Anyway, I deleted the translation for blockhouse as it’s not used yet.
And after I finally found out that the word prom had added wasn’t "reply" as he wrote – he meant "replay", I wonder how to translate it. It’s used as "Replay", "Spielaufzeichnung", "Aufzeichnung", "Wiedergabe" and "Aufnahme"… Which one do we prefer?
Last for today: "savegame" and "saved game" are randomly translated with "Spielstand" and "gespeichertes Spiel". What about that?

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fuchur wrote:

I'm not involved in the translation process, but a german player. So I want to contribute what I think from a players side:

Sure, that’s the input we need.

• scout: like wl-zocker said I, too, have the feeling that "Späher" has a more military meaning than "Kundschafter". Therefore I'd prefer the latter one.
• savegame: I think in widelands "savegame" refers to the file on the harddisk. So "gespeichertes Spiel" would fit better. With "Spielstand" I think more or less of sports like soccer (aktueller Spielstand 2:1)

True, thanks for your comments.

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• garrison = Garnison sounds fine to me.
• blockhouse/baracks: "Bei einer Baracke [...] handelt es sich um eine behelfsmäßige Unterkunft, als einstöckiger, nicht unterkellerter leichter Bau, besonders aus Holz." (source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baracke). I think this definition hardly fits to a place where soldiers are trained. But I think it fits to a small, cheap building that can only be occupied by one soldier. For the place where soldiers are recruited, I suggest "Kaserne". This does not really fit the description I found, but players might know the term from other games.
• replay: I do not know which word is the best. I do not like "Replay", it is an unnecessary anglicism. One could say that a Wiedergabe is the showing of the replay, and the replay is then a (Spiel-)Aufzeichnung or an Aufnahme. Aufnahme sounds a bit like a film that you only watch, but in a replay, you can scroll around and choose what you want to see.
• savegame: Maybe I have played too much Widelands, but I understand Spielstand. However, I can follow fuchur's argumentation: The Spielstand is the state of the game (Stand des Spiels), e.g. "2:1" or "The blue player has had great land gains.", whereas the savegame we use mostly refers to the file.

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I try a summary. If no objections come, I’ll take the terms as they are here:

• "scout" will be translated as "Kundschafter", the buildings as "Kundschafterhaus/-hütte", the verb still "erkunden"
• "garrison" = "Garnison"
• "blockhouse" = "Baracke" (so the translation won’t change even when the term will)
• future "barracks" = "Kaserne"
• "replay" = "[Spiel]Aufzeichnung"

For "save[d ]game" = "gespeichertes Spiel": How does "Speicherstand" sound in your ears? I just try to make the term a bit more handy.

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wl-zocker wrote:

@GunChleoc: Stronghold was translated as "Bastion", which makes me think of something bigger and stronger.

I figured as much, which is why you would have had to shuffle terms - call something bigger a "Bastion" and then shift the term you used for the other building - a bit of round-robin or musical chairs, so to speak - or should I say merry-go-round?

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