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Talk:Suzumiya Haruhi:Volume8 Editor in Chief★Straight Ahead!

2007-11-30T14:12:55Z

218.186.9.1: Mistranslated/broken english

== Hishimochi-in-the-sky ==

Hishimochi 菱餅 (diamond-shaped rice cake)

Hishimochi is made of three layers of rice cakes, each of which is colored in green, white and pink respectively from bottom to top.[http://mykitchen.seesaa.net/article/14186480.html] The cake is believed to represent a nature scenery of early spring when green grass starts to grow under white snow while pink blossoms of peach trees come into bloom. [http://www.tourism.metro.tokyo.jp/english/webmaga/2005spring/hina.html]

Tsuruya-san says 絵に描いた菱餅, which literally translates to "a drawn portrait of a hishimochi." As Kyon suspected, this is a mild mangling of the saying 絵に描いた餅, or "a drawn portrait of a mochi." It means "perfunctory, nominal, something that is of no practical use: a 'castle in the air.'" There's an interesting read about it (at least for me (^ω^;)) [http://www.geocities.com/scocasso/mochi/mochi03/mochi03.htm here].

"Pie in the sky" is another common translation of this saying; I chose to use this one since it also refers to a food item. (^ω^;) I think another approach would've been to phrase it as "a boysenberry pie in the sky" or something like that.

== Mistranslated/broken english ==

"I am making serious reformation my slogan. If I formally approve such an unserious brigade, my reputation would crash to the earth. I will not accept it."
Please correct this sentence/message?

User:Jc100

2007-03-22T22:05:17Z

218.186.9.1:

Being not used to editing wikis (and having a very forgetful nature), you can see my IP strewn all over edit histories without summaries. Bear with me.

I'll be inactive until April, lots of 'school' stuff to catch up with. My high school graduating exams are this year. Will start cleaning from the first day's secnario all over again after that. Reason why I do not translate recent files is 'cos I've not completed the game yet :O and do not want spoilers.

User:Jc100

2007-03-22T22:04:47Z

218.186.9.1:

Being not used to editing wikis (and having a very forgetful nature), you can see my IP strewn all over edit histories without summaries. Bear with me.

I'll be inactive until Apri, lots of 'school' stuff to catch up with. My high school graduating exams are this year. Will start cleaning from the first day's secnario all over again after that. Reason why I do not translate recent files is 'cos I've not completed the game yet :O and do not want spoilers.