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

Onizuka-gto: /* Mistranslated/broken english */ in future, please keep all debate with script translation to the forum. thank you

2007-12-01T01:07:22Z

Mistranslated/broken english: in future, please keep all debate with script translation to the forum. thank you

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	"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.		"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 ==~~

	~~<s>"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?</s>~~

	~~<u>Done.</u>[[User:Jc100\|Jc100]] 06:20, 30 November 2007 (PST)~~

Jc100: /* Mistranslated/broken english */

2007-11-30T14:20:06Z

Mistranslated/broken english

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	"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."		<s>"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?
			Please correct this sentence/message?</s>

			<u>Done.</u>[[User:Jc100\|Jc100]] 06:20, 30 November 2007 (PST)

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2007-11-30T14:12:55Z

Mistranslated/broken english

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	"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.		"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?

169.229.84.144: link to blog showing hishimochi

2007-03-02T10:37:52Z

link to blog showing hishimochi

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	Hishimochi 菱餅 (diamond-shaped rice cake)		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. 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]		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].		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.		"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.

GDsMDDLFNGR at 15:30, 25 October 2006

2006-10-25T15:30:03Z

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== 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. 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.