OT: Japanese Translation

TerranC · #1 June 19th, 2003, 04:45 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I know I can get a machine-generated translation, but that is not what I wanted. I want a real translation.

Then pay for it.

Edit:

Babelfish tells me that the phrase says "It went away".

After looking around several Japanese-English Online dictionaries, and after I tried my best to comprehend it, I believe it says something along the lines of "On Hiatus; Thank you for your understanding.".

[ June 19, 2003, 03:49: Message edited by: TerranC ]

Kamog · #2 June 19th, 2003, 06:22 AM

The Japanese characters say "kiema****a" which translates to "Disappeared".

Tenryu · #3 June 22nd, 2003, 11:18 PM

I speak and read some Japanese, 2 years a university level, 25 years ago, damn I'm getting old, and lived and worked in Japan for about 4 years. I still am hopeless at it. So much for my lame credentials. Anyway:

I think the best current translation of that would be "vanished" past tense. Or, perhaps, more lightly, "Poofed" as in suddenly disappeared, like magic.

[ June 22, 2003, 22:20: Message edited by: Tenryu ]