The elevator scare and fakeout 🤣🤣🤣 (but is it a fakeout…)
Yeah, very good question! It definitely sounded like more.
First of all, it’s heavy on the four-character idioms and I keep having to look them up. But more importantly, the descriptions are…very long-winded and the metaphors are a bit over-extended?
Yeah, I've heard priest's style is generally considered to be a bit difficult and full of chengyu and such! Totally admiring you for being able to read it at all. And that's fascinating about the extended metaphors, a very distinctive part of the quippy narrative voice. I find that quite charming!
I remember there was a pretty good translation of this bit that either foxghost or dtriad on Tumblr had done. I’ll try to dig it up.
Oooh, that would be awesome! I remember both of them did some very intriguing Guardian translation meta back then, but the only one I know I still have a link for is foxghost talking about "Daqing" vs. "Da Qing". *g*
we’re getting excellent Da Qing lore so early in the game.
Seriously! I love those details.
ZYL’s whole speech about not being able to ear moral integrity is such a character moment. Very pragmatic and somewhat cynical man.
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The elevator scare and fakeout 🤣🤣🤣 (but is it a fakeout…)
Yeah, very good question! It definitely sounded like more.
First of all, it’s heavy on the four-character idioms and I keep having to look them up. But more importantly, the descriptions are…very long-winded and the metaphors are a bit over-extended?
Yeah, I've heard priest's style is generally considered to be a bit difficult and full of chengyu and such! Totally admiring you for being able to read it at all. And that's fascinating about the extended metaphors, a very distinctive part of the quippy narrative voice. I find that quite charming!
I remember there was a pretty good translation of this bit that either foxghost or dtriad on Tumblr had done. I’ll try to dig it up.
Oooh, that would be awesome! I remember both of them did some very intriguing Guardian translation meta back then, but the only one I know I still have a link for is
we’re getting excellent Da Qing lore so early in the game.
Seriously! I love those details.
ZYL’s whole speech about not being able to ear moral integrity is such a character moment. Very pragmatic and somewhat cynical man.
Yes, agreed! He's such a character.