Editing Talk:Log Horizon (section)

== Term continuity. ==

I'm not a translator or anything, I'm just trying to fix a few grammar errors when I see them (and make the script flow better... I'm also new here, account and forum-wise), but I've been seeing terms which seems as though they should be fixed being phrased in different ways.
* Is it "Elder Tale" or "Elder Tales"?
* Is it "League of Freedom Cities Eastal" or "Free Cities of Eastal League" (I've found at least three variations. As the name of a country, shouldn't this be somewhat constant?)
* Is "People of the Land" a title/race name, like Human, Elf and Dwarf? It's sometimes typed with first letter capitalization, sometimes without, sometimes used to refer to both plural and singular (for e.g. "she was a people of the land" as opposed to "she was a person of the land").

I hope you don't mind if I standardize the above terms, as well as any similar terms I encounter (I'll be using the first example quoted, because they're the first way the name is brought up).
[[User:Nerazim|Nerazim]] ([[User talk:Nerazim|talk]]) 00:01, 26 December 2013 (CST)

:As far as I know standardizing terms across volumes is quite welcome, so long as meaning isn't changed. You can consult the translator and discuss which standard they'd like. [[User:All Nighter94|All Night]] ([[User talk:All Nighter94|talk]]) 00:29, 26 December 2013 (CST)

:Eastal is the name of the league, so this instance "Free Cities of Eastal League" is wrong.--[[User:KuroiHikari|KuroiHikari]] ([[User_talk:KuroiHikari|Talk]] | ) 01:51, 26 December 2013 (CST)

::Actually, it should either be "League of Free Cities, Eastal" or "Eastal League of Free Cities". I believe "league of free cities" is a similar term to kingdom, empire, dukedom, all of which are political systems (see Hanseatic League). Personally, considering the location of the league, I suspect Eastal is a transliteration of Eastern.
::"People of the land" is how the npc's in Elder Tale were called, to differentiate them from player controlled adventurers. I would suggest for groups, "People of the land be used", 
::while for individuals, "lands(man/person/women)" be used instead. --[[User:Blake77|Blake77]] ([[User talk:Blake77|talk]]) 07:56, 26 December 2013 (CST)

For continuity sake, keep what they have already in Volumes 3 and 4 for the league. These have already been converted to be consistent in these volumes. 
--[[User:Shido|Shido]] ([[User talk:Shido|talk]]) 20:32, 26 December 2013 (CST)

:I'm pretty sure volume 1's image on pages 4-5 clearly supports "Elder Tales" as the name of the MMORPG, plus it probably flows better that way. [[User:Madoka2029|Madoka2029]] ([[User talk:Madoka2029|talk]]) 21:28, 26 December 2013 (CST)


::::I could have sworn I replied, but I'm not seeing them... I'm rather lazy to type them over, so Thank You (and yes, i agree, where applicable), to the people above...

:::::Mamare, the author, used "Elder Tale". Hara Kazuhiro, the artist, used Elder Tales (probably for balance of the logo?). Volume 7 gives an official name to the People of the Land as "Landers," so that will probably used at some point when the translation comes out. Also, the Settings Book calls the Round Table Alliance/Conference the "Conference Round Table," but that sounds ridiculously stupid so I doubt we should change it. --[[Special:Contributions/74.89.132.250|74.89.132.250]] 20:59, 29 June 2014 (CDT) (Queenie-Beatrice)

I've got a question about that raid/dungeon with nine and prison in its name. It's referred to as '9 Prisons of Heroes', 'The 9 Big Prisons for Heroes', 'The Nine Prisons of Heroes', 'The Nine Great Prisons of the Heilos (Helios)', 'Prison of 9 Heroes' and '9 Prisons of Helios', from Volume 2 onward. This should be standardized, but I know zero Japanese and Chinese so I can't check.
-[[User:Rockmosis|Rockmosis]] ([[User talk:Rockmosis|talk]]) 22:00, 27 June 2014 (CDT)

It's actually a bit unclear. The Japanese reads as "He-i-rou-su no Kyuu Dai Kangoku." Judging by the sound, I would favor "Heroes" over "Helios", but I couldn't say over "Heilos." That particular word is in Katakana, which tends to indicate a not-Japanese word or a proper noun. Kyuu Dai Kangoku is pretty straight-forward though as "9 Great Prisons" (Big Prisons sounds a little...derpy). So I might suggest either the "9 Great Prisons of Heroes" or "9 Great Prisons of Heilos."  I would actually be curious to know if the Chinese version used characters for heroes or whatever random string of Chinese characters that sound close to Heilos. [[User:Rasen|Rasen]] ([[User talk:Rasen|talk]]) 22:47, 28 June 2014 (CDT)