Talk:Romance of the Three Kingdoms

intentions for the moment + what might be become of this

nice, maybe English speakers at some point could use this as a learning resource to help learn about German and maybe Chinese as well. --Remi 22:50, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

1. Yes, it could be similar to something what Google does: they use docs from the UN (about 20 billion words) with different languages for their google translator.

2. My intentions at the moment are: to come closer to the text, to get a feeling for it, ...

3. What I noticed during translation was:

a. I wondered about:

• "autumn moons": around earth (in close distance) I just see one moon, so either it is a typo or a metaphor for something ? done
• "green mountains": means perhaps that there are trees or other green plants blooming on mountains ?

b. I also had the urge to translate it sometimes a little more different, e.g.

b1. "wie oft war die Abendsonne rot ?" -> "wie oft war die Abendsonne schon rot ?"

in English: "how many times has the setting sun been red?" -> "how many times has the setting sun already been red?"

b2. "gewöhnt wie sie sind" -> "gewöhnt wie sie es schon sind"

in English: "accustomed as they are" -> "accustomed as they are already"

But I sticked to the English text. Perhaps later in a second run this can be changed ?

c. Also I am not sure if here is missing something ?

"how many things from past and present have they laughed and talked about with each other?" -> "about how many things from past and present have they laughed and talked about with each other?"

d. Also I noticed that for the poet Yang Shen there is no German WP article yet :-( ----Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 23:15, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

s:User:A-cai could help me in the above matters, see here. Thx, ----Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 19:20, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

translation continued on temporary page

see for chapter1 here, ----Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 19:16, 28 March 2008 (UTC)