He seemed like a good guy, very nice. He was kind of shy and there is a possibility he had a hard time being on camera and dealing with the pressure. During his last appearance on the show he said he was "panicking" or having a panic attack (honestly artosis was being a dick and he didn't know how to respond)
Just to clarify I have nothing against the new translator. I think he is pretty good actually.
Posted Oct 21, 2010, 4:36 AM UTC
John is Awesome and yeah hes at blizzcon hopefully alot of people can cheer for him and make him feel good about his job
Upvote as another sign of support for Junnka doing an awesome job despite the challenges and pressure of the role.
Ps, hopefully they give you more time to translate between sentences for the closing ceremony this season. That was just sooooo harsh. I would've gave up. lol.
Where is this panic/Artosis being a dick? Anyone got a link?
Does anyone have a youtube clip of this "being a dick" accusation. It might very well be true, but I dont recall it and I watched.
Side note, do the translators play the game or have a lot of knowledge of the game because the questions seem pretty straight forward in english and Im wondering where a lot of the hesitation comes from when translating it. Because to someone who plays the game it seems like it would be really easy to translate if you have a grasp on both languages. I dont personally speak two languages so consider this an outside perspective.
Translating on the spot can be hard even with a direct knowledge of both languages. The key issue is that languages don't align 1-to-1, English->Korean is far from one of the easiest language conversions. For example you might say in english something simple and short but to convert to Korean in the same context requires 3x the length of time to actually speak it. Then after that some words and descriptive text (and tenses) Don't even convert properly so you have to think of substitute words which make sense in the language that will convey the same idea.
It's hard enough speaking fluently in a non-natural language, but converting something that was said to you to something that means the exact same in another language takes it even a step further than you speaking first-hand.
Hope that made sense -_-
And also there must be different names for their units, like koreans dont call them banshees. So you have to remember two names for every unit lol
I do know that Marauders are known as Fire Bear Guys (according to Tasteless anyway).
I think you are mixing Fire Bears and panda bear guy.
??? artosis wasn't being a dick whatsoever
John is awesome. Nick, Dan, and John are all at Blizzcon and they will all return.
Omg everyone plz Follow him on TWITTER!!!
http://twitter.com/#!/junkka83
btw this is the video of what people think artosis was acting like a dick to him
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