Harvey's New Eyes: Touhou Edition.

Edited your TL, vatas, to include the "särkee" pun. Hope you don't mind.

The original puns "särki", roach, with "särkeä", to hurt. Finnish language works by putting suffixes at the end of words to conjugate them. Thus "särkeä" becomes e.g. "Minua särkee." or "I'm in pain./It hurts me./I'm being hurt." and "särki" becomes, say, "Tahdon särkeä" or "I want some roach." This is corrupted in informal speech to "Tahdon särkee."

Thus, informal, dialectal form of partitive case of the Finnish word for a roach fish forms a homonym with the active third person indicative of the Finnish word for "to hurt". Also, the verb "to hurt" works a little differently in Finnish than it does in English.

First one to figure out how to fit that comfortably in a gets a cookie.Edit: BUU-klubben happens to be the only non-Finnish-speaking show on Finnish national TV that isn't subtitled to Finnish.

When Wagasagihime is "speaking" underwater, she says "Buu Klubben" in the middle. It's a Finnish children's show where everyone speaks Swedish and is aired on a Finnish TV channel for Swedish-speaking minority.

And now you know more.

E: That feel when you finish your explanation of a piece of Finnish culture budoka azathoth is one step ahead of you... Well bummer.

Took the liberty of correcting "curiosly" to "curiously".

budoka_azathoth said:

First one to figure out how to fit that comfortably in a gets a cookie.

I gave it a shot... how does that look?

budoka_azathoth said:

Edited your TL, vatas, to include the "särkee" pun. Hope you don't mind.

The original puns "särki", roach, with "särkeä", to hurt. Finnish language works by putting suffixes at the end of words to conjugate them. Thus "särkeä" becomes e.g. "Minua särkee." or "I'm in pain./It hurts me./I'm being hurt." and "särki" becomes, say, "Tahdon särkeä" or "I want some roach." This is corrupted in informal speech to "Tahdon särkee."

Thus, informal, dialectal form of partitive case of the Finnish word for a roach fish forms a homonym with the active third person indicative of the Finnish word for "to hurt". Also, the verb "to hurt" works a little differently in Finnish than it does in English.

First one to figure out how to fit that comfortably in a gets a cookie.Edit: BUU-klubben happens to be the only non-Finnish-speaking show on Finnish national TV that isn't subtitled to Finnish.

Better translation for Kagerou's line AND better pun? CAn not help but approve, I considered mine to be placeholder till I or somebody else figres out better.

TheKid965 said:

I gave it a shot... how does that look?

Seems good to me.

Setz comics are the highlight of my day.

Danbooru: Came for the Touhous, stayed for the sociolinguistics classes. Seriously, you guys. Danbooru rocks because of the dedicated translators like you guys. Thank you very much.

If Wakasagihime insists that Kagerou uses that "massage ball" I don't think her muscle aches are going to be a problem anymore...

AdventZero said:

If Wakasagihime insists that Kagerou uses that "massage ball" I don't think her muscle aches are going to be a problem anymore...

Yeah; she won't have a back or neck to BE hurt...

Waggysaggy is the best nickname.

FrozenRoy said:

Waggysaggy is the best nickname.

The original Finnish, Wäkisäki is cooler. Umlauts make everything better.