Back to business.

Did some more translating today. It's going rather smoothly, I should get out of Pewter next time I sit down to work on it (tomorrow or the next day).

I gave up for the day when I hit the phrase "Let's get happening." Yes, I could translate that, no it would not make sense. In fact, it already doesn't make sense. The nineties were weird.

Now on Twitter!

In an attempt to do something, Projekto Ruĝa has taken to Twitter. https://twitter.com/#!/Projekto_Rugxa

Se vi konas ajnulon kiu, tiu povas fari ikonon por ni, bonvolu diri iun.

Something has happened

Something has come up and I don't think I'll be able to get much translated over the next few weeks. I hope that by Summer, things will have blown over.

I apologise.

A Bump in the Road

Right, so, I'd gotten into the habit of translating on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at which times I have most of the day open (I have only one class those days), but last Tuesday, my laptop cord finally broke and I haven't gotten a replacement yet. I've ordered one that should come in next week, but until then (since I do all of the translating on my laptop), translation will be on hold.

In other news, I'm almost out of Pewter. I'd be at Mt Moon by now, but there have been several tricky phrases that I've struggled with.

Dankon

A Change of Venue

While this doesn't relate so much to the actual translation of Pokemon Red, I'd thought I'd keep you up to date on how the process is going.

Previously, I had been using a .txt file in a Dropbox to type in my translations. The other day, when I went to work on it, I opened the file to see that all of the diacritic characters (ŝĝŭĵĥĉ) had been replaced with questions marks! (?)

Apparently, I (or ShootingStarMax) opened and edited the document and saved it in a form that didn't support diacritics. I loaded up an older version of the file and picked up from there, only losing a couple of dialogues. Because of this, I have now switched to using Google Docs, though I may revert later if I end up not liking it.

On something a bit more relevant:
Esperanto, being a Construct Language, has some peculiar features/lack of features that you don't find elsewhere. For example: I encountered a BUG CATCHER who says "darn" when defeated. "Darn," being a minced oath, has no perfect translation. It's just a corruption of the word "damn." I know how to swear in Esperanto, but it didn't seem quite the path to take when translating this, so I was forced to come up with a minced oath in Esperanto. I settled on using "feg," at least for now.

By the way, if anyone could help me find a Japanese Script for Pokemon Red, I'd be very appreciative. It would help a lot with things like this.

Gis!

Not Dead

I promise, I've just been busy with classes starting up again. I'm out of Viridan Forest and am taking a short break to brush up on my vocabulary and phrasing. After some more study I will continue.

Decembro kaj Preter!

Longa Senvidas!
My November of writing is over and now exams have begun. Those finish in the next few days, then I'm free once again to tirelessly pour myself into this silly little project. Expect updates in the coming weeks and more of my senseless ramblings and sentences that I start, then forget what I was saying. Simila tiu.  

Ĝis Pli Posto,
Vespero.