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by VegettoEX » Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:49 am
Vegitofaxx wrote:Okay guys, i need you to answer a question.
Why did the dub change Tenshinhan to
Tien Shinhan? I don't get it.
Giving everyone involved the benefit of the doubt, it probably went like:
"Tenshinhan is too long/hard a name"
"OK, let's shorten it."
"Well, 'Ten' isn't really something we should go with. Probably can't monetize a name like that."
"The food it's based on has a region that you can adapt into our alphabet as T'ian or T'ien or something, so let's go with that."
"OK."
"Oh, and maybe just lop that 'Shinhan' part on later as a tossaway thing. Like when we say 'Kame-sen'nin style of martial arts' with Goku."
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by Vegitofaxx » Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:59 am
VegettoEX wrote:Vegitofaxx wrote:Okay guys, i need you to answer a question.
Why did the dub change Tenshinhan to
Tien Shinhan? I don't get it.
Giving everyone involved the benefit of the doubt, it probably went like:
"Tenshinhan is too long/hard a name"
"OK, let's shorten it."
"Well, 'Ten' isn't really something we should go with. Probably can't monetize a name like that."
"The food it's based on has a region that you can adapt into our alphabet as T'ian or T'ien or something, so let's go with that."
"OK."
"Oh, and maybe just lop that 'Shinhan' part on later as a tossaway thing. Like when we say 'Kame-sen'nin style of martial arts' with Goku."
That sounds reasonable enough, thanks
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by Valerius Dover » Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:33 am
I always figured that Funi considered Shinhan to be his last name or something. It's pretty much only used at Tournaments.
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by jcogginsa » Wed Apr 01, 2015 10:16 am
Vegitofaxx wrote:Okay guys, i need you to answer a question.
Why did the dub change Tenshinhan to
Tien Shinhan? I don't get it.
From what i understand, the dub took an alternate reading of Tenshinhan, and split it in half so that it wasa given name and a surname.
Tenshinhan is the japanese name of a chinese dish
Tienshinhan is the chinese name of that dish.
I could be mistaken about that though.
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by Valerius Dover » Wed Apr 01, 2015 10:53 am
jcogginsa wrote:Vegitofaxx wrote:Okay guys, i need you to answer a question.
Why did the dub change Tenshinhan to
Tien Shinhan? I don't get it.
From what i understand, the dub took an alternate reading of Tenshinhan, and split it in half so that it wasa given name and a surname.
Tenshinhan is the japanese name of a chinese dish
Tenshinhan is the chinese name of that dish.
I could be mistaken about that though.
They're the same...?
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by Adamant » Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:00 am
jcogginsa wrote:Vegitofaxx wrote:Okay guys, i need you to answer a question.
Why did the dub change Tenshinhan to
Tien Shinhan? I don't get it.
From what i understand, the dub took an alternate reading of Tenshinhan, and split it in half so that it wasa given name and a surname.
Tenshinhan is the japanese name of a chinese dish
Tenshinhan is the chinese name of that dish.
I could be mistaken about that though.
Tenshinhan is a Japanese dish. The name translates to "Tianjin Rice", though it doesn't have more to do with the Chinese city Tianjin than General Tso's Chicken has to do with general Tso.
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by Vegitofaxx » Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:01 am
Valerius Dover wrote:jcogginsa wrote:Vegitofaxx wrote:Okay guys, i need you to answer a question.
Why did the dub change Tenshinhan to
Tien Shinhan? I don't get it.
From what i understand, the dub took an alternate reading of Tenshinhan, and split it in half so that it wasa given name and a surname.
Tenshinhan is the japanese name of a chinese dish
Tenshinhan is the chinese name of that dish.
I could be mistaken about that though.
They're the same...?
He got corrected by the filter
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by Vegitofaxx » Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:01 am
Adamant wrote:jcogginsa wrote:Vegitofaxx wrote:Okay guys, i need you to answer a question.
Why did the dub change Tenshinhan to
Tien Shinhan? I don't get it.
From what i understand, the dub took an alternate reading of Tenshinhan, and split it in half so that it wasa given name and a surname.
Tenshinhan is the japanese name of a chinese dish
Tenshinhan is the chinese name of that dish.
I could be mistaken about that though.
Tenshinhan is a Japanese dish. The name translates to "Tianjin Rice", though it doesn't have more to do with the Chinese city Tianjin than General Tso's Chicken has to do with general Tso.
Are you danish?
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by Adamant » Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:25 am
Vegitofaxx wrote:
Are you danish?
Norwegian.
(though I have the Danish edition of the manga, the Norwegian translation is garbage)
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by Vegitofaxx » Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:32 am
Adamant wrote:Vegitofaxx wrote:
Are you danish?
Norwegian.
(though I have the Danish edition of the manga, the Norwegian translation is garbage)
Oh, the danish version is better than the english in some cases, IMO
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by Adamant » Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:41 am
Vegitofaxx wrote:Adamant wrote:Vegitofaxx wrote:
Are you danish?
Norwegian.
(though I have the Danish edition of the manga, the Norwegian translation is garbage)
Oh, the danish version is better than the english in some cases, IMO
Not just some cases, it's usually both better written AND more accurate to the Japanese than Viz's English edition. Definitely one of the best releases out there.
Though I don't think this is really the topic for that.
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by jcogginsa » Wed Apr 01, 2015 4:14 pm
Valerius Dover wrote:jcogginsa wrote:Vegitofaxx wrote:Okay guys, i need you to answer a question.
Why did the dub change Tenshinhan to
Tien Shinhan? I don't get it.
From what i understand, the dub took an alternate reading of Tenshinhan, and split it in half so that it wasa given name and a surname.
Tenshinhan is the japanese name of a chinese dish
Tenshinhan is the chinese name of that dish.
I could be mistaken about that though.
They're the same...?
I figured only T-I-E-N got corrected by the filter, didn't realise t
ienshinhan also did
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by Vegitofaxx » Thu Apr 02, 2015 8:43 am
Adamant wrote:Vegitofaxx wrote:Adamant wrote:
Norwegian.
(though I have the Danish edition of the manga, the Norwegian translation is garbage)
Oh, the danish version is better than the english in some cases, IMO
Not just some cases, it's usually both better written AND more accurate to the Japanese than Viz's English edition. Definitely one of the best releases out there.
Though I don't think this is really the topic for that.
The danish dub on the other hand...
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by Puto » Thu Apr 02, 2015 11:23 am
T'ien is the wade Giles romanisation of the Chinese reading of the first kanji in Tenshinhan's name. (Whole thing in WG Chinese would be Tienchinfan)
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