Yes, even sound effects get picked up by the autotranslators. Understandable, since languages like that of the inhabitants of planet Kyzeterion are entirely composed of sound effects.
Yup. Their movie industry has sound artists that specialize in simulating the sounds of everyone else’s speech. (Their DVD subtitles are hilarious. It’s all “Splat-zing-thud, poof-crunch-burp-whoom” from start to finish.)
15 thoughts on “Chapter 20, page 30”
H'Sishi
What exploded in Panel 4? Force field of the shield (panel 3)?
Merceneiress
That’s Tirin’s magic blowing back the trilordians (sorry if I didn’t make that more apparent!)
merceneiress
I’ve changed panel 4 to show that Tirin caused the magical explosion.
Guesticules
Trina is getting to see just how badass Tirteen is
Now the question is: does Billy stand a chance? 😛
Merceneiress
😂 good point!
Guesticules
Just to clafairy: meant that Trina might not be going back to Billy 😛
(“Teach me, mistress!”
“You mean you want me to be your ‘master’?”
“I said what I meant!”
“…”)
Guesticules
Would that happen to be a high-pitched scream in panel two? o_O
Lurker314
It seems that the piercing scream was cut short…
Merceneiress
haha! yes the scream translated from trilordian came out as aieee!
E Hines
Panel Four: everybody’s a grammar Nazi. That should be WHO
Eric Hines
Merceneiress
😁 good one!
Brother Parvus
Either that, or “whoom”, all in the holy name of disambiguation (a favorite occupation of compiler writers).
Kylo Stimpy
Yes, even sound effects get picked up by the autotranslators. Understandable, since languages like that of the inhabitants of planet Kyzeterion are entirely composed of sound effects.
Brother Parvus
Biological foley artists then?
Kylo Stimpy
Yup. Their movie industry has sound artists that specialize in simulating the sounds of everyone else’s speech. (Their DVD subtitles are hilarious. It’s all “Splat-zing-thud, poof-crunch-burp-whoom” from start to finish.)