Serenity symbol
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UPDATED: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 20:08
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Originally posted by Murkymerc:
I don't speak chinese so I am guessing here, but I belive that modern Madarin and Cantonese use the same symbols the the difference are only when spoken. Can one of you hippy college kids confirm? There wasn't a big push to learn Chinese when I was in school.
Like I said not sure. All dialects of Chinese share a common written language (which is why they're called dialects, rather than being seperate languages) but I think that different symbols can be used between them. But then I could be utterly wrong...
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Originally posted by daveshayne:... As to the series I'm trying to remember if we ever got a look at the logo. ...
We get a look at the ship's name in the series (I believe in the pilot at Eavesdown Docks), but it is not the logo from the movie - in fact, I recall it being pretty not-exciting.
The logo from the movie was designed for the movie by Serenity's graphic designer, Geoffrey Mandel (with "lots of input" from Joss). CABridges posted an interview with him on SerenityStuff.com:
http://www.serenitystuff.com/2006/02/10/interview-with-geoffrey-mandel
-graphic-designer-for-serenity/
The interview doesn't say anything about the differences between the promotional logo and the actual logo on the ship. There is an image of the ship-logo within the interview, if anyone is still looking.
As for the Chinese characters, my understanding is that different dialects have some of their own characters, but they share the main (historic) ones. In fact, even Japanese uses Chinese characters (Kanji) for nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. So, I would not expect the characters from the logo to need to be translated, especially since there is no need for grammatical context. Any inconsistancies (not that I've noticed any) would be more likely based on an error by the movie designers/translators, as we saw with the Blue Sun logo. (There are nuances of meaning...)
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Check out:
http://www.chinatownconnection.com/chinese-symbol-serenity.htm
and
http://www.formosa-translation.com/chinese/s/sz71.html
BigMike
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It's true that the Japanese use many Chinese characters. I have a dear friend who has been teaching English in japan for a number of years. I showed him the Serenity logo from the movie, without mentioning what it was from and asked him to translate the symbols. His interpretation was that they literally translate as "Quiet Strength".
Sounds like "Serenity" to me!
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