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Translations and Why They are Fun but Tedious
For this mod, it all started because raiserfx allowed me to use his mesh. He's from Germany, so it only seemed right to do a German translation. But, I haven't studied or spoken German since my senior year of high school. Running the terms through Google Translate seemed "off" to me.
For instance, a direct translation of warehouse in German is Warenhaus, however that is more specifically a store with lots of goods and wares like a department store. But the East Empire warehouse is more of a storage center for goods and wares to be shipped to another location, so the more correct term is Lagerhaus.
Fortunately for me, my brother Jim is fluent in German, majoring in German in university. Jim went through and dissected the words for me, using the Germ...