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everysongineverykey · 1 year

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the legends of localization book has reawakened my love for the nuances of translation and now i REALLY wanna take all the undertale dialogue and narration and translate it into french. for funsies

#i know i know french bad and all that. fair. but also: it's the only other language i know and am good enough at to feasibly do something #like this #dr could be fun too. i've got some ideas knocking around for that as well #the intricacies between characters of which would call frisk tu right off the bat and which would use vous #and the point in the game at which the latter characters would switch to vous.#mettaton's dialogue wouldn't be fun though. there are VERY few gender neutral terms of endearment #that serve as a good stand-in for 'darling' in french #very few gender-neutral terms in french at all honestly. but that's beside the point #maybe since french people are accustomed to a certain amount of english in their media #for example 'battle time' and 'game is over' in off and the like #i could just keep darling in places. it might be easier to have him use gendered terms of endearment #for people other than frisk. i'm thinking 'ma belle' for alphys. just affectionately. my grade 5 french teacher #who was from france #used to call me and the other girls in our class that affectionately #i mean. i wasn't a girl really. but you get it #ooh and i wonder what pronouns napstablook should use. i know there are community-made #nonbinary pronouns in french #such as ol and iel #they seem like an ol to me #i know many nby people aren't happy about iel since it's a mashup of il and elle #and therefore still built around a binary #and i totally get that but i don't think they're useless or actively harmful as pronouns! i'm sure there are some who like them and use #them #seam seems like an iel to me tbh #anyways this has been my short ramble about how i would go about localizing undertale into french. thank you very much for listening. bows

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