Post by Shrikeswind on Jun 4, 2010 21:04:29 GMT -5
I was beginning to wonder. I'll try and regain our heading on this ship and post based on Mario and furthermore add a crossover fan-fic idea, since everyone seems to like that idea, too.
Yeah, with Mario, silence is supposedly golden, as says Fryguy, but fanfics have a very unfortunate tendency to require text in order to get a point across, as such, you literally have to impose some speech onto characters, which can end up either unnoticeable (your goal,) or, well, CDi. And it's especially tricky in stories with multiple languages, something you seriously MUST understand with Mario. Why's that, you ask? Two words: Donkey Kong. Big ape doesn't speak English. Every time he or any Kong has any face time with a non-Kong, non-Kremling character, all you hear is monkey screeches. Between Kongs, you'll see human speech, but as soon as a human comes in, it's just a pack of apes screaming at each other. So you have to figure out a way to make it clear that this language barrier exists. There's a similar problem with the Yoshis (with one exception,) but you have the fortune of that exception being a viable translator. For simplicity's sake it's best to not repeat and instead simply imply that Yoshi said to Mario what was said by the character. With Donkey Kong, all text must be understood to mean "A Kong is speaking, so only a Kong would understand, but you, the reader, are allowed to understand as well."
Yeah, with Mario, silence is supposedly golden, as says Fryguy, but fanfics have a very unfortunate tendency to require text in order to get a point across, as such, you literally have to impose some speech onto characters, which can end up either unnoticeable (your goal,) or, well, CDi. And it's especially tricky in stories with multiple languages, something you seriously MUST understand with Mario. Why's that, you ask? Two words: Donkey Kong. Big ape doesn't speak English. Every time he or any Kong has any face time with a non-Kong, non-Kremling character, all you hear is monkey screeches. Between Kongs, you'll see human speech, but as soon as a human comes in, it's just a pack of apes screaming at each other. So you have to figure out a way to make it clear that this language barrier exists. There's a similar problem with the Yoshis (with one exception,) but you have the fortune of that exception being a viable translator. For simplicity's sake it's best to not repeat and instead simply imply that Yoshi said to Mario what was said by the character. With Donkey Kong, all text must be understood to mean "A Kong is speaking, so only a Kong would understand, but you, the reader, are allowed to understand as well."
