Sunday, August 21, 2022

Translating trivia questions.

A thing to try, in the interest of trying things, is translating questions for this app Trivia Crack. Veamos cómo va:

In The Lion King, why does Scar want to kill Simba?
映画ライオンキングではなぜスカーはシンバを殺したいのか。

He's tired of his attitude—シンバの態度にうんざりしてるから

To become king—王になるために

He doesn't want kids—子供が欲しくないから

He is bored—スカーは退屈だから

Or maybe because Simba's bored. 

No way to know whether that's anywhere near the mark, but I'll submit it because, hey. On to the next ね.  

This next one isn't promising: "What's the definition of ambidextrous?" That works in Eng because the roots are Greek, so you can offer the options "lefthanded" and "righthanded" (although etymologically it's more like "both right", with the ancient connotation that the dexterous right hand is better than the sinister left hand and thus both hands are valid/worthy); but in Japanese the first kanji is literally "both" 両.

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