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I don't entirely disagree on whether the German in the books is bad, I definitely notice issues when they have someone speaking in Dutch. It's just that I don't
by irishsultan 5y ago
I don't entirely disagree on whether the German in the books is bad, I definitely notice issues when they have someone speaking in Dutch. It's just that I don't see how you could compare amideutsch (1632) with amideutsch (real world).
- bayesian_horse 5y agoThere are sometimes German words and phrases being used, wrongly. One of the lesser authors seemed to actually use google translator, and badly at that. To me as a native, it just has a feeling of wrongness. For the German language this is different than Dutch because Dutch has a less complicated morphology. One non-morphological example is that they would translate "uptime" as something like "aufzeit", while referencing it like a river. "zeitauf" would make sense as an adjective, but it hurts as a noun. The literal translation would be "Hochzeit" which unfortunately already means "wedding", but could be distinguished by context and pronunciation.