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Post by nether on Oct 26, 2011 16:20:25 GMT -5
Hi everybody! Guys, need some help. I want to make a Russian translation of original script for my friends, and there is a little trouble with one person in it. I can’t understand what does it mean “Tall Mankind”?.. Is it a representative of “advanced humanity”, or it’s something like the essence of Tall Man?.. Can anybody explain to me this character, and may be give some synonyms for the name of this person. I can’t really realize the meaning of the name of this guy. Thanks a lot!
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Post by postmortem on Oct 26, 2011 19:00:34 GMT -5
The way I would translate it would be "Tall Man-Entity." Or "Tall Man-Being." Tall Mankind is a wordplay on the creature's nickname "Tall Man." "Mankind" in the script does not mean the human race. Instead it means that the creature is some thing that only loosely resembles the "Tall Man" we know and love. Thing, being, entity, creature... All of these are nouns you could use to describe this alien creature. The creature has a distorted visage of the Tall Man, but the rest of the body looks quite alien (inhuman). Good luck.
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Post by nether on Oct 27, 2011 1:47:29 GMT -5
Thanks so much for the wonderful explanation! U really helped me so much! As U can see "Tall Mankind" is the key character of the story, so I have to translate it properly. There is an excellent word to translate "Tall Man", but it's a bit harder with "Tall Mankind", he-he. But now at least I can understand the meaning of "mankind" word in the script.
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