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Old February 5th, 2014, 10:40 AM
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Re: Soldiers of Valhalla - nominations and discussion

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Originally Posted by Lyrgard View Post
In fact, the personnality we gave him on the french forum was "Indomptable", which translate as untamable, indomitable (indomitable would be a cool personality I think). "Indomptable" was used on two cards in french, the Granite Gardians and the Greater Ice Elemental, and the english personnality for thoses cards is... Dauntless. So we didn't choose Dauntless, we choose the french equivalent of "Indomitable", and it lead us to Dauntless in english.
Fascinating. Everyone who knows a second language can tell you that the art of translating is from a word-to-word match from one language to another. This is a case of the connotation of a word changing when translated.
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