In the excellent Forever Ago by @thirdshift.studio & @annapurna.com, you can choose to name your dog with a variety of options ๐บ A pet name has to sound cute but also be meaningful to the player, so let's see how we localized these options into Spanish, German & French! ๐๐งต #gameloc
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- ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ - In French, mari literally means 'husband'. Given the theme of the game (and the fact that the dog is a female), our team went for ๐๐ถ๐น๐. ๐ 'Lily' is a cute nickname in France and โMariโ comes from Mariposa, a type of lily, so it made sense! For this same reason, it's also L๐ถ๐น๐ถ in German.
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- ๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ - โHopeโ does have corresponding names in several languages: โ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒโ in French, โ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฎโ in Spanish and '๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฎ' in Italian... Except for German where it's only a common noun, not a proper name! Therefore, our team chose the Spanish '๐๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฎ' to make it sound right โจ
- ๐ง๐๐ถ๐ด๐ - ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ in German ๐ 'Ast' means 'branch' but 'Aster' is also a purple flower, allowing to stay close to the original and to stick with the flower theme ๐ชป ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฎ in Spanish ๐ 'Branch'. The literal translation would be "palo" but it being a masculine substantive, our team chose a feminine one!
- ๐ ๐๐ณ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป - Muffins exist all over Europe so it stayed as is pretty much everywhere... Except for Spanish: ๐ ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฎ. ๐ The traditional Spanish muffin is called "magdalena". Magdalena is also a given name for women in Spain, usually shortened as Magda: a way too perfect coincidence to let it go!
Cheers to our amazing linguists: ๐ฅ @mittovac.bsky.social & @locdandloaded.net ๐ฆ @cmilner.bsky.social, Gesine Preusser & Linda Geschwandtner ๐ชญ @curribarcelo.bsky.social & @bigbadwolframio.bsky.social ๐ค