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TUSF·4/23/2014 in Editing Discussions

English Translations and what to do,

I told Gsi before, that when I received my copy of Volume 1 in English, I would make this thread to discuss changes in terms and such, for standardization. Of course, the romanized spellings given in the original Japanese text, or by Karahara-sensei are to be taken above any adaption. However, where do we rank the priority of the English novel exactly? Already, there are two names that contradict previously established official spellings.

Wiki Term	Yen Press	Source for Previous
FullDive	Full dive/Full-dive	Fan-Transcription of フルダイブ (FuruDaibu)
Kobatz	Corvatz	Tweet by Kawahara
Godfree	Godfrey	Anime Episode 6, Asuna's Friend list.
Black Iron Palace	Blackiron Palace	Fan Translation
Room of Resurrection	Chamber of Resurrection	Fan Translation
Starting City	Town of Beginnings	Fan Translation
Friben	Frieven	Fan Translation
Weathercock Pavilion	The Weathervane	Fan Translation
Argo	Algo	Spelling used in the novel & Spelling used in the newspaper of Ep 3
Divine Stone of Returning Soul	Sacred Stone of Rebirth	Fan Translation
Reason for the Whiskers	The Reason for the Whiskers	Fan Translation (just add a "The")
Cows' Counter Attack	Revenge of the Cows	Fan Translation (It's a quest name... )
Ryufior	Ryufiol	Fan Translation
Wind Wasps	Windwasps	Fan Translation (JP Manga also uses the new term)
Tracking	Pursuit	Fan Translation (name of a Skill)
Blade Throwing	Throwing Knives	Fan Translation

While changing "FullDive" into two words would be easy enough, and not really cause any problems, there's a problem with the others. Kobatz was a name Kawahara announced to be the spelling of コーバッツ (seeing as names in SAO are actually written with letters.)

There's also Godfree/Godfrey. This one is less-so a problem, if we choose how to prioritize what is "more correct". The English Translated novel, or the Anime adaption?

I'll be reading through the book more, to see if I spot any other deference between what we currently have.

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Gsimenas·10/6/2014

Since my copy finally came, I can confirm that Argo was misspelled as "Algo" in Reindeer.

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Gsimenas·10/6/2014

Divine Stone of Returning Soul -> Sacred Stone of Rebirth

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Wraiyf·10/6/2014

jesus... I'm not liking the official Translations, they're really annoying me now -_-

and I was gonna buy Volumes 1-2 from the store, might not if so many errors are gonna give me a headache... by errors I mean changes btw.

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Gsimenas·3/26/2015

So, Progressive v1 changes time. I've only checked through Rondo so far.

Chapter names:

Aria of a Starless Night -> Aria on a Starless Night
Reason for the Whiskers -> The Reason for the Whiskers (just adding "the")
Rondo of a Transient Sword -> Rondo for a Fragile Blade

Aria, Rondo and all the other chapter names in Progressive follow the structure of Xの[musical piece], but using different prepositions ruins the feeling of a structure for the naming.

Ironically, the afterword uses the "of" structure. Yen Press can't make up its mind.

Names:

Ryufior -> Ryufiol (the random guy at the beginning of Rondo who ruined his Anneal Blade; not really a big change since he's only mentioned on an article or two)
Wind Wasps -> Windwasps (technically, that's what the raw manga uses too)
Tracking -> Pursuit (valid translation, but "tracking" sounds more appropriate, seeing as the user sees tracks of the person they are trying to find.
Blade Throwing -> Throwing Knives (I don't think that chakrams count as knives...)

Errors:

Still uses "col".

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TUSF·3/29/2015

The translator may have realized the pattern to the pattern names when he got to the afterwords and changed it there, but forgot to change it before. We'll leave Aria as is for now. I'll the rest to the list (that we may or may not eventually get to.

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Qunow·4/1/2015

What is Yen Press' name for those second floor bosses? Now on the wiki is Asterios the Taurus King and the previous SAOP cahpter give Asterius the taurusking

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Gsimenas·4/1/2015

Asterios the Taurus King. What SAOP chapter gave it as "Asterius the taurusking"?

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A Fandom user·4/1/2015

*typo, should be #17

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Gsimenas·4/1/2015

Oh, you meant manga. Hmm, アステリオス obviously comes from Asterion/Asterius, the stepfather of Minos. So yeah, Yen Press didn't do its research again. It should be Asterius. However, the rest of the name falls out of the usual naming pattern. No other name had colons in it before and each new word is supposed to be capitalised. And two words being merged is usually an error because of a lack of a separation in the kana version, so I suggest we keep the two words separate unless Kawahara himself says that this is how the name should be written.

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What do you think?