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Spanish translations are just...

DaLoE·5/20/2016, 3:51:01 AM·4 votes·1,588 views

Well, Im DaLoE and Im the one who translate PBE patch notes in EUW boards. Always I enter in PBE to check the i get disappointed with some translations. For example, last patch (6.10), SG Kindred was a male skins in all languages except Spanish, here it was "Kindred Supergaláctica", fortunaly and thanks to RiotKateyKhaos the skin had been renamed. Now, in this patch (6.11), I want to know why these skins have the name reversed. I mean, in English it is "El Macho Mundo", "El Rayo Volibear" and "El Leon Gnar", but like always, in Spanish are different, "Mundo el Macho", "Volibear el Rayo" and "Gnar el León", and I think that these names are just WTF. I would like to know why we have to be different, why we cant translate the things like other languages do or HOW LatinAmerica does.

The same happened with "El Tigre Braum", it was realased as "Braum el Tigre" and it was renamed to "El Tigre Braum" some patches after this.

I hope an answer cause i feel really disappointed. Thanks for spend your time reading. ^^

7 Comments

MargaretThatcher5/21/2016, 1:16:34 AM2 votes

that's why i changed my client language. Everything is so awful, the voice acting, the grammar and the translation.

For example: in spain jinx when picked says "let's get this party started".Yup. Who cares about english translation when u can make ur own things.

I dont say that everything must translate literally since there are many jokes or etc that only make sense in english, but they do whatever they want to make it ""fit""

Ebonmaw Dragon5/20/2016, 4:18:55 AM1 votes

The thing that upsets me most about the Spanish translation is "Jonia"

Im pretty sure that its "Ionia" in the rest of the world.

Bârd5/20/2016, 4:41:42 AM1 votes

In Spanish, words describing a subject generally come after the subject, while it is the opposite for English.

Even if the words are in Spanish, since they are being placed into the English client, reversing the order so that it makes more sense to English readers makes sense.

"Manly Mundo" "Lightning Volibear" and "Lion Gnar" work better here than "Mundo the manly" "Volibear, the lightning" and "Gnar, the Lion".

Wolfess5/20/2016, 7:59:34 AM1 votes

because in some Spanish countries, the title comes after the name. It depends if its being used as an actual TITLE or if it's being used more like an adjective.