Offense taken due to Chinese phrases?

POSTED BY: Forrestwolf
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:56
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CYNDAMINTHIA

Friday, July 30, 2004 6:41 PM

I think if there were English translations...well, the show would be rated R just for the language!

*poof*

TETHYS

Friday, July 30, 2004 6:57 PM

off topic....sorta

how is NN being made into part of the 'verse?...is it a mod or something, because I have NN and would LOVE to be able to play a FF game.........

"You replaced Firefly with *barf* Fastlane?!"
Zoe:"Take me Sir. Take me hard" - War Stories

FIREFLEW

Friday, August 6, 2004 1:27 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by tethys:
off topic....sorta

how is NN being made into part of the 'verse?...is it a mod or something, because I have NN and would LOVE to be able to play a FF game.........

"You replaced Firefly with *barf* Fastlane?!"
Zoe:"Take me Sir. Take me hard" - War Stories

It's a mod. Go to Neverwinter Vault - I'm terribly sorry, but I don't have the link with me currently - just Google it.

Then, do a search for Firefly, less surprisingly.
As of now, it's a DM led affair, and the game I played was very fun

. Where're you in the world, time-zone wise?

Jayne: "Know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I beat you with till you understand who's in command."

TETHYS

Friday, August 6, 2004 1:28 AM

eastern

"You replaced Firefly with *barf* Fastlane?!"
Zoe:"Take me Sir. Take me hard" - War Stories

GORAMLAW

Sunday, August 22, 2004 1:49 PM

Firefly games? Sounds fun, unfortunately I have no idea what you guys are talking about! Anyone care to enlighten me?

"That only matters to the people on the rim!"

FORRESTWOLF

Sunday, August 22, 2004 6:44 PM

The link is:
http://nwvault.ign.com/Files/modules/data/1080769905000.shtml

for the base module and the location of the haks. It's a big group of downloads, so be prepared - you're getting 11 custom classes and lots of custom models (guns, outfits, tilesets, and more), so you're basically getting a new game for free.

It's intended to be the base of someone's campaign - you can build with it just fine (documentation included). You'll need to be the kind of person who can DM NWN, which is tricky but immensely enjoyable.

Eliandi and I run our own separate campaigns, but trade areas back and forth. He's running one set mostly on Persephone, and I'm running one on the Space Bazaar of The Message. For more info on my campaign, head to www.neverwinterconnections.com, and ask either one of us. I would be very, very glad to coach someone through making their OWN campaign and DMing it.

- Forrestwolf (maker of the Firefly NWN system)

AILIAN

Saturday, September 18, 2004 12:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by madoka:
mandarin chinese is my first language (lived in taiwan until i was 12), and i found the chinese used on the show absolutely hilarious. i often had to rewind several times in order to figure out what they were saying. :) the short curses and snippets (like 'doan ma?') are pretty easy to understand, but a few sentences were completely unintelligible.

LOL! The same here. =) A friend of mine sent me the episodes and I've been watching them with friends here in China and it sometimes takes us a while to get what's being said.

I like that they used CHinese, but knowing my Chinglish, their snippets seem to be a bit off. I'd never say, "dong ma?" in many of their situations, but, "ting dong ma?" and would have more random things being said ("zenme le?"). But that's just me. =)

IZCHAN

Monday, December 6, 2004 5:26 AM

Actually the curses in the show are not vulgar compared to the true to chinese curses. Most of the curse used in the show were literal english trans or simeple curses.

Chinese curses are an artform in its own, each dialect has a certain amount of curse words that cannot be translated into another dialect even, let alone to english.

There some common curses that are used and no longer as vulgar as it used to be (as people accepted it more graciously) ... but please be advice that those who trully understand where the curse originated from would be taken offence.

For example
"Ta Ma De" (mandarin)
Will actuall just mean "Your Mother's"
Which leaves the whole sentance hanging.
The origin of this curse comes from this phrase
"Ta Ma De Chow Zi Bai"
Which would mean, Your mothers smelly "vagina" (me being not so rude, you are free to replace vagina to the more commonly used words)
So when you use, the word "ta ma de" on a person, be very carefull because it is a direct insult of the persons mother. And no warm blooded male will take likely to that curse.
This curse have been in chinese language for so long that people came to abreviate it so that the full impact of the curse is not brought fought and thus slowly accepted in the common tounge.

There are plenty more of these curses around, and many use them without much thought, but it is really quite vulgar when you know what it trully mean.

Personaly when you compare chinese curses and english curses, you will see that the chinese does have a flare when it comes to telling another person what they think of them.

I once had a friend who can curse for 15 minutes without repeating himself and he was more or less out of breath when he finished his sentence. :)

Hope this helps.

OOKAMIKAWAHARA

Sunday, December 4, 2005 2:51 AM

On the one hand I would say be cautious and know the people around you and situations. On the other hand I have taught some of my Japanese friends both Common English cuss words and also street slang. Remeber, in Asia (this is very general), but remember that you have to deal with face. Again this isn't as prounced in the U.S. and the West, but it is still here. Once upon a time Son of a bitch was grounds for a dual in the West. Same thing goes in the East, becareful of the insult cause it could leave ya in a heap of trouble. Part of it is just interaction and knowing the people around you. Anyways hope this helps. Also Ex-pats have a usual sense of humor so if they know that it is not lit and for fun most times its no prob and is hilarious for them. Anyways there is my 2 cents. shikashi minna san wa nani to omoi masu ka? mata, Ookami yori

Ah Hell Capt, we chargen another cannon

ACESANDEIGHTS

Sunday, December 4, 2005 3:22 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Forrestwolf:
The link is:
http://nwvault.ign.com/Files/modules/data/1080769905000.shtml

for the base module and the location of the haks. It's a big group of downloads, so be prepared - you're getting 11 custom classes and lots of custom models (guns, outfits, tilesets, and more), so you're basically getting a new game for free.

It's intended to be the base of someone's campaign - you can build with it just fine (documentation included). You'll need to be the kind of person who can DM NWN, which is tricky but immensely enjoyable.

Eliandi and I run our own separate campaigns, but trade areas back and forth. He's running one set mostly on Persephone, and I'm running one on the Space Bazaar of The Message. For more info on my campaign, head to www.neverwinterconnections.com, and ask either one of us. I would be very, very glad to coach someone through making their OWN campaign and DMing it.

- Forrestwolf (maker of the Firefly NWN system)

Excellent! Im going to have to dig my copy of NWN out of my desk and try it out!

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