Suezhou Rap Sheet

[John Wisnom]

So Arsenic is Chrome's mommy, not La Hurricane...The punctuation nothwithstanding...Way to go, Hitori!

[hitori]

Living in the States, I have very little exposure to Mac and its OS.
But for the web, Shift-JIS format should be a universal thing since it's from the JIS.
If you are talking documents, a txt file extension saved in unicode or ASCII using Simple Text or BBEdit is a safe bet.

[elemental]

John, it seems you should be demanding a copy of Knight Flags and Smoke Walls and any other reference materials that are out there. If you haven't been given all the relevant reference materials and all you have to work from are a bunch of email attachments, how can they (publisher/editor/whoever... including us readers) expect you to produce a good translation?

[John Wisnom]

奴隷が解放された

[John Wisnom]

ＳＦ：サイレント・フローレス
SF: Silent Flawless
サイレント・フローレスはアルセニック・バランス公爵のファティマ「光のタイ・フォン」に与えられた称号で、人類にはなしえない無限の時間の中で特殊な任務を与えられたタイ・フォンに人類が敬意を込めて与えた称号である。
This is actually a title given to Arsenic Balance's Tai Phon of Light, to honor a fatima destined to perform special duties for eternity.
クローソーとタイ・フォンふたりに共通することは、このふたりともに「ファティマ」として生み出されたのではなく、人類の目的、探求のために作られた特殊な人工生命体であるということだろう。
What both Cloth and Tai Phon have is common is that they were not created as "fatima machines of destruction," but as artificial life forms to fulfill the dreams of the human race and explore.

・ファティマ・ラ・ユリケンヌ
B2-B1-B1-B1-B1:VVS1･M型
バランシェの実母、アルセニックの作った「風のファティマ」のひとり。
Chrome Ballanche's mother, created by Arsenic as one of his "Wind Fatimas."
[oops! LOL!]
定冠詞の「ラ」をつけるアルルのパートナー。
The "la" was added by her partner Arr Melody.
見ての通りカイエンのアウクソーと色以外はまったく同じデザインであるが、これはスーツのデザイナー、シアン夫人が同じものをアルルに渡したということだろう。
If you look closely, you'll notice her outfit matches that of Kaien's Auxo, except for the color. Designer Mrs. Cyan's doing…perhaps

・ファティマ・オプチカル・タイ・フォン
パワーゲージなし P/G Unknown：ＳＦ・Ｍ型
通称「光のタイ・フォン」。アルセニック・バランス・Ｘにより作られた特殊なファティマ。
A special fatima created by Arsenic Balance X.
[?]
現在はクラウン銀河のほぼ中心にいるらしい。その目的は不明である。
She is apparently now in the center of the Crown Star System, but we don't know why.
パワーゲージは不明。マンティック・スタイルという特殊なスーツスタイルだが、このデザインはのちの運命の３女神のオペラピンク色のスーツに引き継がれている。
Theマンティック? style suit she is wearing will be adopted by the Three Fates of Destiny in opera pink.


やれやれ！？

[John Wisnom]

Living in the States, I have very little exposure to Mac and its OS.
But for the web, Shift-JIS format should be a universal thing since it's from the JIS.
If you are talking documents, a txt file extension saved in unicode or ASCII using Simple Text or BBEdit is a safe bet.

Tried everything...even hotmail..finally resorted to my windows laptop for the following information about Arsenic
Thanks for trying, though
BTW...nobody has a had a heck of a lot of exposure to Mac, stateside or elsewhere

Wanna hear some Windows hate stories circulated by Toys Press?

[John Wisnom]

John, it seems you should be demanding a copy of Knight Flags and Smoke Walls and any other reference materials that are out there. If you haven't been given all the relevant reference materials and all you have to work from are a bunch of email attachments, how can they (publisher/editor/whoever... including us readers) expect you to produce a good translation?

No truer words were ever spoken. However, among Toy Press' corporate strategies "maximizing information asymmetry" seems to be one of the top priorities. In other words, they like to keep secrets

I was given some reference materials, like the infamous e-book, but most of the sleeve notes, character descriptions, etc. were extracted from various sources and sent to be translated in rather cryptic word processor files.

I'm sorry, but I'm a translator, not a mind-reader...

As a matter of fact, after Japanese volume 8, the translation became kind of a guessing game...Truth [ding-dong ] or Consequences [booo ]

[Rubel Colus]

hi John, the e-book u're talking about... is it the Chronicle 2 & 3?

[John Wisnom]

hi John, the e-book u're talking about... is it the Chronicle 2 & 3?

Yeah, I think so...It's in the Toys Press sales catalogue as out of print...Being a later compilation of the two dictionaries (encyclopedias), it may have been updated...

I have a confession to make, I dumped when I recycled everything else in print form...I'm sorry about that...I didn't know y'all existed at the time..

Buuuuuut...I copied it into an MSWord file to make it easier to search the entire content...Arch to Wundershutze, right?

Want it? It's 832k in size...

By the way, there's no item for Arsenic Balance Plenty of Lithium, Uranium and Chrome, though
So maybe you don't want it, after all

Just kidding...

[John Wisnom]

hi John, the e-book u're talking about... is it the Chronicle 2 & 3?

PS: text only, no illustrations

[Rubel Colus]

yeah i want it

pls email it to me? been looking for these 2 e-books...

[hitori]

May I get a copy, too?
Those characters ebooks were never circulated widely because of the lack of pretty pictures

Oh and thanks for the original text!
It was an interesting read.
One question...about the line with the Wind Fatima reference, do you still stand by your original translation?
If it was meant as a joke, my apologies... ^_^

[kinwee]

Maybe you should create a link or something so people who wants to take a look at it can get it ???

[Canadian FSS Fan]

Send it to Tachy and post it on the site.


Unless of course there are copyright issues.

[happy hopping]

business....Would some one tell me what the plural of traffic means?

Exactly. I just assume all those words were mis-spelled by Japanese due to their poor English.

Like what is "Factorys"? And what on earth is the word "Factorys" going to do w/ a book that lists a pile of resin kits from various manufacturer?