Talk:Signum (Nanoha)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 12:30, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Translations

My oppinion, ok, i am totally confused as to what's going on here, and at the moment, i have no real side to pick with, but this is my own 2 cents... I think we, the nanoha fans, deserve to know the german -> english translations of Signums attacks... they're nice little tid-bits of info that just make everything more fun... why would you get rid of them? were they false? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninjagal6 (talk • contribs) 03:24, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

The translations were accurate, similar to translations of Japanese names and phrases on Wikipedia that don't require a source so long as they're literal, which these were. Buspar (talk) 07:45, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, we need a source saying if it's accurate or not. Nothing indicates Buspar is a german user. If anyone can "translate" as he wants and without giving any guarantees...Folken de Fanel (talk) 23:04, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

aha! ok i get it now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninjagal6 (talk • contribs) 14:38, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, heck, this is Wikipedia... anyone can state anything without giving any guarantees! It's up to the rest of us to watchdog. :) They're roughly accurate, at any rate. I'm no german expert or anything, but I'd take issue with a few of them as not necessarily translating for sense. For example, I'm not certain whether Vita's "Panzer Hindernis" would really mean "barrier which is armored", "barrier made of armor", or "barrier against armored vehicles (colloquially, "tank trap"). I'd have to ask a native speaker. Not that I think the creators even put this much thought into it... -Aubri (talk) 22:28, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Signum's name

I've reverted the edit that said that Signum Needes was her full name as it was a fansub error.

Signum was introducing herself as First Lieutenant Signum. First Lieutenant is pronounced as "Nii" in Japanese. So really, what she said was "Signum nii desu."Source: http://community.livejournal.com/nanoha/21640.html?thread=50056#t50056 Sigunamu (talk) 05:49, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

German Translation

The Belka Knights' shielding spells use the word "panzer", which is translated as "tank" on these pages. "Panzer" literally means "armor", not "tank"; battle tanks are called "panzer" for short, because the full word is "panzerkampfwagen", "armored battle wagon". (Babelfish is often wrong on this point.) I've changed them to reflect this. Please revert the change if this is contradicted by canon documents -- heaven knows the director has some language issues. "Raising" Heart indeed... :p -Aubri (talk) 22:20, 28 July 2010 (UTC)