Talk:Strike Witches
Translation issues
Foreign words
Proper nouns/ranks in other languages will be used where appropriate when characters would logically be speaking in their own language. This mainly goes for character speech, but I'll probably change things and just give a translation if it gets needlessly awkward. I will keep ranks in their respective languages until the entire squadron meets up and starts speaking in Britannian.
In the prologue, appropriate terms for the various forces have been used for diversity, but starting from Chapter 1, I'll be using translated terms. Afterwards, everyone starts speaking Britannian, making the issue moot.
Ranks
| Ranks | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Character | Affiliation | Rank | Abbr | Equiv.Rank (Britannian Air Force) | Abbr (Brit.) |
| BAF Commandant | Britannian Air Force | Group Captain | G/C | Group Captain | G/C |
| USN Captain | US Navy | Captain | Capt. | ||
| USN ACO | US Naval Aviation | Commander | Cdr. | Wing Commander | W/C |
| Washizumi | Fuso Imperial Army Air Service | Chuu-sa | --- | ||
| Sakuma | Fuso Imperial Army | Chuu-sa | --- | ||
| Häkkinen | Suomen Ilmavoimat | Kapteeni | Kapt. | Flight Lieutenant | F/L |
| Ahonen, Miki | Suomen Ilmavoimat | Kapteeni | Kapt. | ||
| Leivonen, Elma | Suomen Ilmavoimat | Luutnantti | Ltn. | Flying Officer | F/O |
| Anabuki, Tomoko | Fuso Imperial Army Air Service | Shou-i | --- | Pilot Officer | P/O |
| Katoh, Takeko | Fuso Imperial Army Air Service | Shou-i | --- | ||
| Beurling, Elizabeth F. | Britannian Air Force | Pilot Officer | P/O | ||
| O'Hare, Katharine | US Naval Aviation | Ensign | Ens. | ||
| Hartmann, Ursula | Karlsländer Luftwaffe | Feldwebel | --- | Flight Sergeant | F/S |
| Sakomizu, Haruka | Fuso Imperial Navy | Ittou Hikou Heisou | Ichi-hisou | ||
Countries
| Countries | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Full name | Adjective | Language | Nationality |
| Suomus | Suomus/Suomen (Nouns) | Suomi (?) | ||
| Fuso | Fuso Empire | |||
| Karlsland | Karlsländer | Karlslaendisch | Karlsländer | |
| Britannia | Marine State Britannia | Britannian | Britannian | Britannian |
| Liberion | United States of Liberion | Liberian | Britannian | Liberian |
The junk for Suomus (and Fuso) needs to be decided, since the entire novel takes place there. Use Suomi, like in the actual world? Or make something up like Suomis/Suomese/Suomish/Suoman.
Formatting
Punctuation
I will be using British styles for dealing with punctuation and quotation marks. This means that the position of commas and periods will follow logic, and not always end up inside quotation marks. Other than this, I'll be using American English for spelling.
Speech quotation marks will use a double quotation mark "...".
Preferred order for ! and ? is '!?'.
