Request Could You Explain This?

a different consonant to vowel ratio, especially in the ending
hard to put as much emphasis on the ie as the ll, i think
at least when ya shouting at the top of yer lungs

 

Kill!
Nah,
This is Sparta!

 

"Die" only means the death of the enemy, "kill" points to the cause of death: yourself. It gives more emphasis to the point that you are the one acting, slaughtering, putting the enemy to death.

+1. Kill sounds more aggressive and better to shout than "die"

 

*lols* I tell my puppy to kill people with a kill command

....it's the only command she can't seem to follow somehow

....No matter how many treats I give her ... any ideas?

 

Think of it less as a them telling the opponents what they are going to do but more of a battle cry or just a yell before the battle. It has less to do with telling the enemy what you are going to do but hyping up yourself and your men.

If you are about to start a battle and want to pump up your soldiers blood are you going to yell "Kill them" and hope all your men repeat it perfectly? One word is much easier for a large group to repeat at the same time. This also puts fear into the enemy with a united group all saying it at once. Has a much larger impact.

For single battle I think it would have less of an impact on the opponent and more of just a starting point for the battle to begin. If you are giving long winded sentences before the battle both sides will probably think that the communication point is still ongoing. Once "kill" is yelled it shows that the talking is over.

 

From practical perspective, shouting long words during battle can result in shortness of breath and disruption of position. It's much more logical to shout just one short word, as it wouldn't be very damaging to your battle performance, it can also raise morals and damage your opponent by performing quick sonic attack and taking your opponent by surprise.


Thats my opinion

 

I would like to KILL YOU ALL!

Why the long faces? Have you all not been invited for tea before?


Yes, CN overuses the world kill quite a bit. I see it used for virtually everything, even friendly matches or minor conflicts and then later on they just pretend they never said it.

 

It's just a mistranslation. The word that's in the original Chinese is "杀", and while it usually means "kill" it can also mean "attack". This latter meaning is the one that should be used when the word is used as an order, so if you're seeing "Kill!", just blame it on the translator.

 

In Chinese, "kill" is "杀." "Kill them," would be "杀他们." Now I don't know about you, but if the enemies are obviously in front of you and you're about to head into battle I wouldn't waste my breath being redundant. It doubles as a command and a battle cry, so the more accurate translation would be "attack!" except the translation of the raw text is literally "kill."

So it's just a case of dubious translation. It's dilemma for translators: do you translate things literally, or figuratively? If you translate literally, sometimes your English readers will get confused like this, or if you translate figuratively, you lose the meanings for feelings evoked from the raw text. What's a translator to do?

 

My vote goes to DIE!

Shouting KILL could mean "kuh... kill me!" and some misunderstandings will arise.

 

Fus ro dah!

 

Just as we have the single word-sentence DIE, Chinese must be having an equivalent for KILL. So it is a case of lost in translation.

 

I was going to answer, but these guys already got my point across

It's not about the enemy, it's about us

 

It's a localization thing. Some things don't carry over exactly. In Chinese, "KILL!!!" has the same meaning in battle as "CHARGE!!" in English.

Or if you are more Warhammer 40K-ish, "WWAAAAAARRRGGGG!!!", just with a lot less saliva.

 

"KILL THEM!!! *Terms and conditions apply."

Corporal: "Damn it, I knew that promoting that ex-lawyer to Lieutenant was a bad idea..."

 

Thank you, I thought similarly, but because I don't understand the language I had my doubts.

Now then, there's another problem.
There's the word 'gotten', which, in the novel I'm reading, is commonly in places where the word "acquired" would be used.

An example would be, "Where'd you gotten that blade?" This is, to many fluent English speakers, wrong; and it pains me to see this.

I'm not mad, I just wanna know, concerning the differences between both words, is there a similar situation as before? Where the word is simply the RAW translation?

 

personally i just imagine the "kill" as everyone going into a blood frenzy to add some extra oomph to the fight

 

It'd be awesome!

 

im not a native english speaker... but that sentence just looks wrong

where did you gotten that blade?

usually you would write: where did you get that blade?
or where did you acquire that blade?.... not acquired or gotten... it's wrong

so it is a mistake in the past/present tense... and not the actual word...?