Eldraeic Phrase of the Day: Tramézashíël Eslévár

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@R.C. <richardjacole84@hotmail.com> on 2018-06-16 07:18:21 wrote

Would ‘The Starlike Empire’ be an acceptable alternate translation?

@Alistair Young <athanasius.skytower@arkane-systems.net> on 2018-06-19 20:51:20 wrote

Kinda clunky, which is why the translation team probably wouldn’t pick it. “Starry Empire”, maybe.

(Or you could go with an alternate name and go with “Bright Empire”, the literal translation of trasúnar eslévár.)

@Mark Atwood <me@mark.atwood.name> on 2018-06-17 22:27:59 wrote

Well, IIRC, they are sometimes called the “Shiny”, originally from a botched translation, and then a term of mild insult, though I can see the ones with outland experience and a self of humor proudly taking the name for themselves.

Probably has overtones of “you had better be smiling when you call me that”.

@Specialist290 <carpentereli@outlook.com> on 2018-06-17 22:49:12 wrote

If you stack two metaphorization operators within the same word or phrase, does that make it a metametaphor