The Gate of Good Fortune's name is wrong

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  1. Demintika

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    NU's Link: www.novelupdates.com/series/the-gate-of-good-fortune/
    Chinese: 造化之门
    Pinyin: Zaohua zhi men
    From my limited understanding of Chinese and the Plot itself, I believe the Translator used Machine Translation for it.
    之 - It's like 's
    门 - simplified form of 門 - Gate / Door / Entrance / Orifice / etc...
    So 造化之门 means "造化's Gate" or "Gate of 造化"

    造化 - If you put it in Google Translate, it shows "Good luck / Good fortune". However "good luck" here is what you say to other, it's like "Hello". You can't name something "Hello's Gate" or "Gate of Hello".
    造化 has another meaning which is more widely used. I believe the author means Creator / Maker / Nature / Providence, something that creates everything.

    I won't discuss on which English name the novel would be.
    But with the current name clashing with the plot, I don't think people'd like it. They are demanding the name to be "Gate of Misfortune".
     
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    AnAnimal Idk mane

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    ? The TL is MTLing it with editing...
     
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    Okay...tell the translator that. NU goes with what the translator says.
     
  4. Demintika

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    The editors don't know Chinese, and the MTL don't have the actual mean of the word.
     
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    Vincent1873 Well-Known Member

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    I assume the Gate of Good Fortune would be an actual object in the story and that peoples' complaints about the MC's luck are retarded.
     
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    That's the good explanation, but I believe 造化 as "good luck" is a phrase said to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement.
    Even if it simply mean Luck/Fortune, the author wouldn't be retarded to use the word that originally means Nature to describe Luck.
    There are other words that specifically used to describe Luck/Fortune.
     
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    Lazybum0 Cheers darlin'

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    The real name should be the The gate Of Bad Fortune's (y)
     
  9. Demintika

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    After reading through that post, I see how he left 造化 as Good Luck because it "sounds better that way" and that "Creation Treasures" also bring Good Luck... Well, it's not the Author's idea, but I'm not complaining.

    However, people are complaining about This^. It's a bait. It's like you click on a lying Ads. No one likes that.
    I guess someone has to add the actual name on this novel's NU page.
     
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    >_> read the post by the mod. We go with the translator.
     
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    Vincent1873 Well-Known Member

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    Well my point was more that the character's luck has nothing to do with the name of the series as it's talking about an object called the Gate of Good Fortune. People saying the character has misfortune means nothing.
    That's not what the post said at all. It said that he chose that name because he was told by a Chinese speaking friend that it had relevance in the later story like the title of "I Shall Seal the Heavens."
     
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    I know. But, I will say again with emphasis: I guess someone has to add the actual name on this novel's NU page; as in Associated Names.
    I'm complaining about the name because I hate seeing people down-vote a novel because they was baited to read something they don't like.
    I'd vote this novel 1/5 if it was Original Name, but people don't know that.

    So, it's fine to call Coiling Dragon as
    The Universe Creator
    ? It's a bit of an extreme example, but it's the same thing.
     
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    ah...you can do that yourself tho. just log in on NU and click on the edit button next to Associated Names...
     
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    Is it the same thing? Can Coiling Dragon in Chinese also be interpreted into Universe Creator? If not then that comparison fails. The post is saying that the author's intended interpretation was Gate of Good Fortune because of the context the author later uses it in in the story.
     
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    Look at Quan Zhi Gao Shou case , translator use widely used English name from chinese people instead directly translating the title into English. Then whe have The Amber Sword that stays directly translating chinese title instead using its official English title Heroes of Amber. We got several other case where translator wrongly translate the title (and some of those even admitted it like in Against the God)

    And I dont blame that philosophy. No one gonna read Bing Huo Mo Chu if its title directly translated into Ice and Fire Magic Kitchen.
     
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    A little off topic, but I'd like to talk about one of Jin Yong's novel, 天龙八部。 Demigods and Semi Devils. :D
     
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    Lazybum0 Cheers darlin'

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    Lol the reviews are horribe hahaha xD
    To be honest i don't remember all that shit , NTR? ,girl sold as slave ? WTF when did all these things happened xD ? maybe i didn't put enough attention.
    And to call it a tragedy , it seems like an exageration to me , a tragedy is something like Berserk, TG or GoT, at least i haven't feel sad while reading it.
    Lol this level of hate is close to Shen Mu
    Strangely i think both novels were quite popular in china.
     
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    I agree with you. Although maybe the ntr and tragedy happen in the untranslated chapters, I mean there are only a bit over 120 chapters translated?
     
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  19. Demintika

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    My example means you shouldn't put something only appears much later as the title.
    It's fine if that 'thing' appears once in Prologue but disappears for awhile.

    However, I'm tired of those saying 造化 means Luck. It's Good Luck as in "Good Luck!", not "You have good luck"; not to mention it's main meaning is Nature.
    You remind me of those mistaking "Awareness" (意識) and "Consciousness" (意識):
    "Raise Awareness of cancer" => "Raise Consciousness of cancer". Sigh.

    I read that since I was kid...

    I'm not complaining about the novel's name into something else. If its English name is "Unlucky man", I won't even complain.
    I'm saying it is translated wrong and misleading. Well, the TL justified it, so I won't say it's wrong, but it's still misleading.
     
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    So you're saying that he should put up what he believes is an incorrect translation because the evidence supporting that decision doesn't appear quickly enough? That doesn't make sense to me.

    Is it misleading in that retards think it's referring to the MC's luck or misleading in that people don't think he can translate properly?
     
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