• 18 Posts
  • 1.57K Comments
Joined 1 年前
cake
Cake day: 2023年7月2日

help-circle



  • WW2 is taught very early on in German schools. Depending on what kind of school you are it might even dominate history class. Things like the 30 Years War, the Weimar Republic, WW1 and the reunification of East and West Germany are also taught, but not in the slightest as much as WW2. My history books back then were filled with pictures from concentration camps. It has been made pretty clear who started that shit, how it has been started and what went on.

    As for Japan I can only give second hand accounts. Usually they teach until the years before WW2 and suddenly they are in it. Nothing about the fascist takeover, no mention of the Kempeitai. There is a lack of information about the how and the crimes committed by their soldiers. Some of the worst monsters from WW2 are praised as innocent people in their own shrines. To this day the government plays the victim card very hard and all around the country people find out about the truth themselves years later. There are movements to change that and actually teach the truth, but they are relatively small.










  • There was that one time the translator fucked up royally and I lost my shit in The Devastation of Baal by Guy Haley.

    To understand we have to look at the pronoun „you“ and it’s German equivalents “Ihr“ and “du“. English doesn’t differentiate between a formal and an informal “you”. It’s just “you”. So you can use “you” in both ways and the reader gets the meaning and tone from context.

    For example: “My lord, you have to act!” Gives you everything you need and you know from context how the power dynamics between the characters are.

    The German equivalent for that sentence would be: „Mein Herr, Ihr müsst handeln!“ To be fair, you can confuse the possessive pronoun “Ihr” with the regular plural pronoun “ihr”. Both of which are completely different. That’s German for you.

    But our translator used the common “du”. The sentence “Mein Herr, du musst handeln!” Not only makes my ears bleed, it also makes no sense in universe. You cannot stand before one of the most well known and revered ANGELS OF MOTHFUCKERING DEATH and say “du”! You uncivilised donkey!