Form 3?

Umiman · Post by **Umiman** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:09 pm

Shouldn't it be grade 9 or something?

This was since my being able to barely pass the graduation examination was purely the fruits of the tutoring my mom had forcefully persuaded me to endure since Form 3.

Unless of course, we're following the British schooling standard here.

Symphonia · Post by **Symphonia** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:13 pm

"Form 3" doesn't make much sense to me from a British point of view either. A ‘form’ to me is a tutor group for a school year, so I'm not sure what Form 3 is referring to here. The 3rd year of middle school?

Umiman · Post by **Umiman** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:22 pm

From a Malaysian standpoint:

Primary school:
Standard 1 - 5

Middle school:
Form 1 - 3

High school:
Form 4 - 5

Jr. College:
Form 6

We're based of the British education system. And I know Britain has Form 6 as well and the rest of the form standard, only it's not referred to as such.

Post by **HolyCow** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:15 pm

Erm, was this from editor or shadow? I think I may have screwed up O.o

Symphonia · Post by **Symphonia** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:27 pm

Yeah, 6th form or college is ages 16-18 here and the rest is just referred to as Year 1 - 11.

I don't think the occasion has really come up in the past where school year naming has being needed, so perhaps GDsMDDLFNGR is using the system he's used to? I think the Japanese school year numbering gets reset at the beginning of middle school and high school as far as I'm aware, though I could be wrong.

@HolyCow: It was from Editor. =)

Post by **GDsMDDLFNGR** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:43 pm

Once again, the current translation of Kyon's story was not posted by me... I'm still finishing up a few more pages before I post mine

and for mine, I put it in as third year (of middle school).

Symphonia · Post by **Symphonia** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:57 pm

Oh right, I forgot we had a mystery translator on our hands. That solves that one then.

Umiman · Post by **Umiman** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:04 pm

Nah, God's middlefinger would never make such a mistake.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:14 pm

As the project leader of this particular chapter have said. It is TRUE that the book simply says the third year of middle school.

BUT! I thought it sounded weird, so I tried to replace it with Form 3 instead.

Regarding your question whether I would continue translating, I do not know. I posted that translation as a draft, I'll be catching Onizuka to see if he likes it or not. Considering I am using the chinese books, there's a huge loss of translation accuracy when japanese turns to chinese, then chinese to english.

PS: I did not translate the names, because they were freakin chinese, and I don't know how to romanize chinese/japanese names. So I left them untranslated so a real japanese translator could stick his hands into it.

PPS: Cheers!

PPPS:

Straddle Straddle (PS: A spoiler for the chapter I contributed, now go figure)

Umiman · Post by **Umiman** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:17 pm

Cheers mate! Kampai~

typhonsentra · Post by **typhonsentra** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:10 am

Another addition from the mystery IP?

Post by **HolyCow** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:27 am

Yea. It would have been better if he could register though. That way it'll be easier to give him credit

Right now, we'll refer to him as "Mystery IP" ;P

typhonsentra · Post by **typhonsentra** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:31 am

I plugged the numbers into Google once. Apparently the guy was known for vadalizing Wikipedia pages a few years back. Glad he reformed.

Symphonia · Post by **Symphonia** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:33 am

Mr. Mystery IP with a shady past. Ooh la la~

Post by **HolyCow** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:35 am

Meh, I have a criminal record of vandalizing Baka-Tsuki with a Higurashi-Kanon-Haruhi joke translation