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Ep1 ep2 ep3 tp new language

Ret Samys requested to merge ep1-ep2-ep3-tp-new-language into master

Most of the scope of translation has already been addressed in issue#173, but here are some additional notes:

  • Onomatopeia added!
  • I hope the different langs.json I added/edited are correct
  • Same goes for transcripts
  • I had to re-format a bunch of things. I don't know if the onomatopeia has to be looked at, but where I'd really like to have someone have a look are these
    • E02P01 the text was a little bigger so I had to add a whole extra field, which is scary. Could be that margins are a bit tight.
    • E03P03 hope the formatting of the text on the leaflet is ok
  • I can say a lot about translations, but here are two more interesting things - which could be interesting for @Deevad and his philosophy:
    • OK, so first, the common names. Things like jan Pepa (Pepper), soweli Kawa (Carrot), ma Komona (Komona) and jan Sapon (Saffron) were expected and announced, but there are some things that have some bigger changes. The currency Ko could have been mani Ko, but "ko" is a word in Toki Pona and I'd like to try to reserve names derived from existing words when it makes sense (see next one for an example) - so instead, I renamed it Komo after Komona. The time spans Azarday and Pinkmoon could have been translated as tenpo suno Asa and tenpo lili Pinun or something to that extent... but these things have deeper meanings, to the point that it plays into future translations: according to the wiki Azarday comes from "hazard", and is entertwined with Kaosah, and I plan to keep the "meaningful" translation kulupu Pakala (like the word "pakala"), so people can, uh, "natively" understand what the magic school is about like we can in English with Kaos-Ah ;-) Therefore, hazard+day=pakala+suno=Pakalasuno, and red+moon=loje+mun=Lojemun. An even better example is the DragonCow, which I don't think is uncontroversial that I renamed it waso AkesiSoweli instead of waso TakoKajo or waso TakoKo. But if it doesn't sound good, changes are always possible =)
    • Credits are maybe the most difficult to translate correctly. This is important to David, so I'll try to write down how I did things:
      • Technically, I should put a "jan" before each name, but I skipped that part. I did do that for the "special thanks" etc.
      • The concepts "free", "libre", "download", "patronage" and others are hard to translate
      • Here's a back-translation into English, from episode 3: "this graphical thing is very much a having-method of all-people"
      • "law-method CC; you can have very-big graphic from document-of-origin"
      • "In the context of 93 people giving money, this part/episode exists"
      • "big goodness from these people: D. T. (GMIC) and all people of group named Krita"
      • "language change of Toki Pona from Ret Samys"
      • "work of this episode using only tools of having-method of all-people"
      • and then I added, to be sure: "tools of Free(libre) method and tools of Open-source method are tool named Krita and tool named GMIC on tool Xubuntu"

Oh, and the translation was a lot of fun in general, but translating the colours partially by going by etymology was interesting. I turned "Viole(n)t" into utala(so)

Edited by Ret Samys

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