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Old 2009-05-31, 10:09   Link #2056
DezoPenguin
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Originally Posted by Kyral View Post
I pointed it out in the comments already.
Now I will be hated there by everybody!

Kyral the nitpicking baka! >>;;;
This wouldn't bug me so much if "Kaiser" actually meant "King," but it doesn't, it means "Emperor." ("Konig," IIRC...actually, more "if I desperately remember since a fic title depends on it," means "king") There's a really big clue in the fact that it's been successfully identified as the "Belkan Empire."

The whole question of "leave the German intact" versus "translate the German" is a different issue, but if you're going to translate the German (which, IMHO, destroys the entire effect of having the Belkan stuff in a foreign language in the first place), it should at least be translated correctly.
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