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Old 01-02-2018, 01:02 PM   #81
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Default Re: Translation problems in new GURPS Lite Spanish

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Originally Posted by Evadam View Post
Hi there, spanish native speaker here.
Welcome to the forum!

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Thrust -> "Directo" or "Recto"
Swing -> "Curvo" or "Revés" or "Balanceado"
Nice input.

Here's what I think for what it's worth.

For Thrust, I'd use the GURPS 3E translation from La Factoría de Ideas (year 1995): Acometida.

Now, for Swing, the proposed terms also in earlier posts around here . . . don't look like sports related, instead of combat? Like tennis or football.

Myself after more pondering just use Golpe for translating Swing, since despite it being rough, it looks like the most general term avoiding misunderstandings. Definitely it's better than Sacudida in many cases!

I believe that a footnote from the translation, "(Nota del T.)", could say for the sake of clarity that the actual term varies depending on the weapon, so it may be a mandoble (from a two-handed sword), a tajo (from a broadsword) or a golpe (from a staff without a cutting edge).

A clarification like this to my mind would solve the idiomatic difficulty with the Spanish translation of Swing in the context of weapons and combat.

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Originally Posted by Steve Jackson View Post
I don't know if we will ever try to update that edition of Lite (. . .)
That's true. However it would be great news!

In any case, trying to solve unusual difficulties with the translation of a term like this one in an official way, like with this thread, would be helpful to run GURPS games with participants using this language.
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