Posted by mSprout (cache-dq02.proxy.aol.com/205.188.209.134) on August 03, 2002 at 20:52:45
In Response to Re: Stupid Japanese pun posted by Gideon Zhi on August 03, 2002 at 20:13:07:
> > I'm come across a really bad pun in the game I'm currently butchering translating. There's this glacier that's called Kurepasu (pastel crayon) that's a definite play on the word Kurebasu (crevice). Anyone have any ideas as to how I could put the name in English and still keep the joke?
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> > BTW sorry for the romaji, but this computer has no Japanese support.
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> > Thanks in advance :)
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> Crayon Crevice, maybe? I dunno.
Maybe a "Bright Cave"? ^_^
Or it could be making a corrilation between how a crevice is dark, and a pastel, which is bright.. :)
So you could call the one glacier "Bright Crayon" and the other one "Dark Crevice(cave)".. That's my opinion.