How to support joint translation efforts?

[Sheenariel]

@sdee

Examples: All the names (including Phoenix Wright) in Ace Attorney are puns, so translating them from Japanese to English makes sense. But all the names in say, Dynasty Warriors are proper names of famous historical characters, so even though they might mean something in Chinese (the way Cooper means barrel-maker in English) it makes sense to leave them as they are.
So, what’s right for Stonehearth? Let’s try a litmus test. Open question to all of you cultural ambassadors: would it make sense to translate “Burlyhands” to your native languages?

@Geoffers747

Edit: A person’s name should remain the same, unless as @Smokestacks has said, there is a specific meaning that would be lost in translation? … Also a place name would remain the same if there was no native word for that place?

I am completely with @Geoffers747 there… I was with WoW from open Beta and for some following years and I remember the time when they began to translate each and every thing. For new players this is not recognizable but for those who were playing WoW and more importantly the Strategic titles Warcraft I to III had to take quite a blow. In the offline titles, places were named “Stormwind” and “Ironforge”… Individual names… Iconic names. But then, they began to rename even those locations and the names of individuals. Yes, they catched the meaning of them quite well and exact, but they are not the same. “Sturmwind” is kinda close, due to Storm and Wind translating to words so well with exchanging just 1 single character/letter. “Eisenschmelze” or “Eisenschmiede” is far less well translated in sound and look but technically well done and the meaning is preserved.
What I want to say is… they had build up recognizable value with those names and took them away. If we now take poor Burlyhands… we know him… we love him… and the German backers who not helped in the translation will wonder “Where is our Burlyhands? We miss him!” while he is just in front of them as for example “Strammhände” or “Starkhände”
That said, if I get something to translate, I will leave out things I know are names, even as they might be problematic in some cases… I would not like to have my name translated into German as well if it comes up in a text. “Christian” is my name… it reads well, as long as you not translate it and thus reveal it’s meaning when using English (even more as I am not following a religion)

@ManOfRet

1. I’m learning German right now in school, and thanks for crushing my hopes of ever learning it thoroughly, and

You know, there is a reason why I often consult Leo.org for this or that translation if I have the feeling that I not get a good translation for a word. Usually then 5 or more possible translations pop up in either direction, you then have to look for the correct context and not just pick the first one. That is, if you want to have it as perfect as possible for you. To save you some worries… German is considered quite a hard to learn language.

@ManOfRet

Ich glaube, ich habe einen guten Wortschatz, aber er ist kleiner als Voxel_Pirates.
I think I did that right…

You did that one perfect