French Translation choices

[Trudd]

I made this topic in order to have the better translation. make your choices.
You can even propose some new translations...

High men : "Hommes du Haut", "Grands Hommes", "Hauts Hommes"
Thugs : "Brutes", "Brutasses" (goblin unit)
Bowas : "Archouilles", "Archer" (goblin unit)
Unhallowed : "Impies", "Désacralistes"
Nodes : "Noeuds", "Nodes" (en fait, j'aime pas noeud, c'est moche et un peu trop phallique...)
Chieftains : "Chefaillons", "Grand Chef"
Witch Doctors : "Sorcieres" "Homme Médecine"
Housing : "Habitation", ?
Unrest : "Troubles", "Mecontentement", "Agitation"

fight Button : "Combattez!", "Baston!"

I underlined the one I put, for the moment.

[Trudd]

any suggestions?

[Eider]

En bleu mes suggestions

High men : "Hommes du Haut", "Grands Hommes", "Hauts Hommes". Pourquoi pas "Humains" tout simplement (puisqu'il n'y a pas de classes comme Mundane/high Men) ?
Thugs : "Brutes", "Brutasses", "Vandales" (goblin unit)
Bowas : "Archouilles", "Archer", "Tire-au-flanc" (goblin unit) (Archouille, c'est fun mais peut-on risquer un jeu de mot avec "Tire-au-flanc" ?)
Unhallowed : "Impies", "Désacralistes"
Nodes : "Noeuds", "Nodes" (Node c'est bien), "Vortex"
Chieftains : "Chefaillons", "Grand Chef", "Chef de clan"
Witch Doctors : "Sorcieres" "Homme Médecine", "Féticheur" (comme dans Diablo 3...)
Housing : "Habitation", ? (là je coince parce que c'est un concept qui ne tient pas en un mot en français)
Unrest : "Troubles", "Mécontentement", "Agitation"

fight Button : "Combattez !", "Baston!"

[trident_job]

Hello, je me propose pour aider à la traduction.
Voici mes retours.

High men : "Hommes" ou "Humains" devrait suffire.
Thugs : J'aime bien "Vandales".
Bowas : "Archouilles" ça fait bien gobelin je trouve, c'est bien trouvé
Unhallowed : "Impies"
Nodes : "Vortex" je trouve ça plus commun et parlant. Node àa existe dans le dico ???
Chieftains : "Chef de clan", ou ne peut-on pas traduction ça par un rang, genre "Commandant" ou "General" ?
Witch Doctors : "Sorcieres" me semble plus simple.
Housing : "Habitation" ou "Habitat" ?
Unrest : "Troubles" et trop général je trouve, "Mécontentement" est plus parlant.
fight Button : "Combattez !"

Voila, j'espere que j'arrive pas apres la guerre et que la discussion et encore ouverte !

[Trudd]

Merci!

Voila, j'espere que j'arrive pas apres la guerre et que la discussion et encore ouverte !

non, non, pas de probleme!
on recueille les propositions;
Pendant ce temps, on continue la traduction avec les mots de base et on fera les changements a la fin.

Edit : @#"@&# d'accent de @#&@#

[Eider]

Merci!
Edit : @#"@&# d'accent de @#&@#

J'me disais bien qu'il y avait un èèè de probleme

[kilobug]

High men : je dirais "Hauts Hommes", sur le modème (bien établi lui) de "Hauts Elfes". Juste "hommes" ça risque de nous attirer des soucis avec les DLC si on a d'autres hommes (idem pour les elfes).
Thugs : "Vandales" j'aime bien.
Bowas : "Archouilles" ça sonne bien.
Unhallowed : "Impies" +1
Nodes : Node ça n'existe pas en français, mais Vortex c'est pas mal je trouve.
Chieftains : "Chefaillons" +1
Witch Doctors : "Sorcieres" +1
Housing : "Habitation" +1
Unrest : je dirais "Mecontentement", "troubles" ça me semble plus approprié avec un modèle de type civ1 ou la production s'arrête complètement quand on en a trop, mais sur un modèle de type MoM où juste les mécontents cessent de travailler ça me semble peu adapté.
fight Button : "Combattez!" +1 ("baston!" ça fera rire tous ceux qui connaissent le Donjon de Naheulbeuk mais j'ai peur que ce soit trop niche)

[circonflexe]

High Men: [I strongly dislike this, because of racist implications]. I suggest “Empire des Humains” to convey a bit of roman-ness and the least possible amount of racism. For the adjectival form, “Impériaux”. This has a quite neutral connotation (the positive part coming from the Rome association is balanced by the negative from the closeness to "Impérialiste" and the “Good Kingdom Evil Empire” trope).

Thugs: “Brutes” is the word-for-word translation (“brutasses” is more trivial and unusual in written language). I however suggest “Petites frappes”: this has a pun inside and implies small stature, aggressiveness, and inefficiency. Four reasons, in my view, to use it for goblins.

Bowas: “Tirailleurs au flanc” would have my vote; this is a classic French pun and very goblin-like.

Fight button: “Combat” seems better than the imperative form “Combattez” (the latter being extremely unusual in video games).

Witch doctors: this one needs a bit of care as well. “Sorciers” (“Sorcières” if female) could also mean sorcerer, or wizard. “Homme médecine” works only for male characters, and maybe even only human males; besides, it is again slightly racist. I would suggest one of
- “Rebouteux” (“Rebouteuses” if female): basically folk doctors. Not much magic is implied; this is mostly a comedic character (fine for goblins);
- “Chamanes” (gender neutral), which is a more serious character, but again with slightly specific cultural implications (implies horsemen, steppes, etc.). Probably already used for Nomads, however.

Housing: if this is for the “Produce housing” button, then it should definitely be “Logements”. “Construire des logements” is the idiomatic sentence in French.

For the other ones, I concur with Unhallowed -> Impies, Chieftains -> Chef de tribu, Unrest -> Mécontentement, Nodes -> Noeuds (and it takes quite a dirty mind to see any phallic implication here; “Nodes” is not an actual French word).

[Eider]

High Men: [I strongly dislike this, because of racist implications]. I suggest “Empire des Humains” to convey a bit of roman-ness and the least possible amount of racism. For the adjectival form, “Impériaux”. This has a quite neutral connotation (the positive part coming from the Rome association is balanced by the negative from the closeness to "Impérialiste" and the “Good Kingdom Evil Empire” trope).

I am not very familiar with the background of MoM and WoM. However, in Fantasy games, race distinction between humans has a real impact on skills and attributes (in the Elder Scroll for instance). Creating an empire may not respect the initial background and implies political issues. I suggested simply "Humains" in the first place but, as Kilobug said, a DLC may create a new human race... I don't like "Hauts Hommes" much but it seems to be the proper translation. By the way, it was already the translation in MoM.

Thugs: “Brutes” is the word-for-word translation (“brutasses” is more trivial and unusual in written language). I however suggest “Petites frappes”: this has a pun inside and implies small stature, aggressiveness, and inefficiency. Four reasons, in my view, to use it for goblins.

I like it

Fight button: “Combat” seems better than the imperative form “Combattez” (the latter being extremely unusual in video games).

+1

Witch doctors: this one needs a bit of care as well. “Sorciers” (“Sorcières” if female) could also mean sorcerer, or wizard. “Homme médecine” works only for male characters, and maybe even only human males; besides, it is again slightly racist. I would suggest one of
- “Rebouteux” (“Rebouteuses” if female): basically folk doctors. Not much magic is implied; this is mostly a comedic character (fine for goblins);
- “Chamanes” (gender neutral), which is a more serious character, but again with slightly specific cultural implications (implies horsemen, steppes, etc.). Probably already used for Nomads, however.

As you say, "Rebouteux" dos not imply any magic. I would prefer "Chaman" (you write it with an "e"?). Why not "Charlatan" as it concerns goblins?
However, we don't know the skills of the Witch Doctor yet and that may change our mind on the translation.

Housing: if this is for the “Produce housing” button, then it should definitely be “Logements”. “Construire des logements” is the idiomatic sentence in French.

+1
I checked in MoM and they used "Logements" as well.

[Trudd]

Bon, comme il va falloir s'y remettre pour la beta, je propose un résumé de ce qui a été proposé.
Les discussions sont toujours ouvertes, mais j'ai restreint (ou pas...) les choix en fonction de ce qui a été voté au dessus.

High men : "Hommes du Haut", "Grands Hommes", "Hauts Hommes", "Impériaux", "Humains"
Thugs : "Vandales" ou "Petites frappes"
Bowas : "Archouilles" (validé)
Unhallowed : "Impies" (validé)
Nodes : "Vortex" (validé)
Chieftains : "Chefaillons", "Chefs de clan"
Witch Doctors : "Sorcieres" en attendant d'en savoir plus sur leurs compétences
Housing : "Logements" (validé)
Unrest : "Mecontentement" (validé)
fight Button : "Combattez!" (validé)

PS: Tiens, les accents sont revenus!