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Ep26 German translation

Ret Samys requested to merge ep26-de into master
  • I hope two merge requests won't be a problem
  • I chose "klasse" for the title, in hopes it reflects the nuances of "great"/"génial" most accurately. Alternatives might be "cool" (which I would very much disagree with in this context), "toll" (which goes too much in the direction of how "cool" is used in English), "genial" (which could be acceptable, but "klasse" seems closer and simpler)
  • E26P01.svg, 2nd panel: reflects the title
  • E26P01.svg, 3rd panel: "Verlies" or "Kerker" might be more literal translation to "dungeon", but I think the cultural context is missing in Germany. As far as I know, for specific contexts, they're also called "Dungeon" in German, but that doesn't feel right and I think lots of readers wouldn't be familiar with the term. So I chose "Burg" because it looks like a castle and also other languages seem to have gone that way?
  • "beschreibt alles über" could be awkward, but I honestly can't tell any more
  • I'm happy with "Es ist Gold wert!"
  • E26P01.svg, 4th panel: "Dieses Auge des Bösen", because "Dieses böse Auge" sounds funny. Might be a little ominous, but I think it's fine?
  • E26P02.svg, 2nd panel: instead of introducing a lengthy genderless term like "Der Autor...", I used a passive sentence structure
  • "toll" because it feels natural to me in combination with "so"
  • E26P02.svg, 3rd panel: I tried doing a less pronoun-driven language for the book ("Über den ersten Balkon springen."), but that became more impossible for later panels. Instead, I had a look at the French version and used the respectful pronoun.
  • E26P02.svg, 6th panel: "Leuchtnetze" for "illuminated net" because I wasn't happy with literal translations. Does it work? Yes Perfect? Probably not.
  • "photosynthetisch" because I have no idea how else to translate it - might come across more academically than in other languages, should be fine in this context, though.
  • I used the "Oh" interjection for the "so" emphasis
  • E26P04.svg, 2nd panel: "Endgegner" for "big boss"/"boss final", like in a video game
  • E26P06.svg, 3rd panel: reflects the title
  • E26P06.svg: There are a couple of things I'm really not too sure about. Since there is a German Wikipedia entry for "Script Doctor", I picked that, "Beta-Leser" instead of the old "Beta-Feedback" sounds weird - I'll leave it like that for now for no other reason than to be accurate about the credits, "universe" had been translated as "Welt" ("world") before, so I left it like that, but it sounded better with "von David Revoy". For the rest, I went with a literal translation

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