Panzer Dragoon II Zwei Original Soundtrack

[BlazingAbyss]

Track 07, 08, 16 and 19 are all written the same way in Japanese as tracks featured on the first Panzer Dragoon's soundtrack, but the English translations used on iTunes aren't consistent.

07: 帝國
PD1: The Empire
PD2: The Empire Theme

08: 飛翔
PD1: Flight
PD2: First Flight

16: 決着
PD1: Conclusion
PD2: Battle Decided

19: 別離
PD1: Parting
PD2: Farewell

[Brad Evans II]

About this translation, am I the only one bothered by the word order in "Imperial Giant Cargo Ship"? It just bugs the heck out of me that it isn't "Giant Imperial Cargo Ship" instead.

[BlazingAbyss]

Now that you mention it, the way that it's worded does look a bit strange. It would appear that it's because they translated "帝國巨大輸送艇" very directly.

帝國 = Empire / Imperial
巨大 = Giant / Gigantic
輸送艇 = Cargo Ship

[Phonograph]

my personal translation is simpler:

帝國 -> The Empire
帝國巨大輸送艇 -> The Empire's Giant Carrier

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Brad Evans II

About this translation, am I the only one bothered by the word order in "Imperial Giant Cargo Ship"? It just bugs the heck out of me that it isn't "Giant Imperial Cargo Ship" instead.

English has a defined order for adjectives. I think that it is so natural for native speakers that we don't even think about it.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/...jectives-order

Other languages do this differently, and I would think that swapping them to a more natural order is valid during translation.