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OT but I find the translation from 神曲 to God Songs very inaccurate. The word 神 has many meanings in Chinese other than referring to gods. Some related expressio
by theseadroid 7y ago
OT but I find the translation from 神曲 to God Songs very inaccurate. The word 神 has many meanings in Chinese other than referring to gods. Some related expression such as 这玩意真神 or 这人真神 would be more properly translated into: this thing/person is enthralling/magical/enchanting/hypnotizing.
神曲 would be the kind of songs that are so hypnotizing that you can't direct your attention elsewhere. And those songs might not necessarily be nice songs. They are referred to as 魔性洗脑神曲 sometimes, which is something like enchanted brainwashing hypnotizing songs in English. One of the first songs being associated with this term is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7U0EirV2Hw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7U0EirV2Hw
- jacobwilliamroy 7y agoI thought maybe the author got that translation from google translate, but then I put it into google translate and got back "divine comedy"
- yorwba 7y agoYup, that's the Chinese title of Dante's work: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%9E%E6%9B%B2 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%9E%E6%9B%B2
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- otabdeveloper2 7y agoThe Greek 'daemon' seems like a pretty accurate translation for '神'.
- schoen 7y agoStrictly, daemon is Latin; a better transliteration of the Greek into English is "daimon". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B4%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BC%CF%89%CE%BD#Ancient_Greek https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B4%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BC%CF%8...
- Voyiatzis 7y agoA Latin transliteration of the Ancient Greek, as “δαίμων” engendered “daimon.”
- rococode 7y agoThe Japanese definition for 神曲 (kamikyoku) is just "incredible song" which I think is probably the intended modern Chinese definition in these contexts (I speak both). I'm not sure if it's an example of wasei-kango [1] (Japanese-invented words being incorporated into Chinese, i.e. "phone", "bicycle", etc.), but 神曲 has been used to describe online videos of Japanese songs for at least 10 years with little descriptive meaning beyond "this is a great song" (for example, this medley of the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon soundtrack from 2007 [2]). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei-kango https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei-kango [2] https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1396236 https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1396236
- rangibaby 7y agoUsing 神 like that is the same as “god-tier” in English
- ralph84 7y agoI don't know Chinese, but my reading was a mistranslation of Idol as in the various Idol TV shows.
- munificent 7y agoThis is pretty close to the English term "earworm".