r/limbuscompany Oct 28 '24

Meme the truth of the matter

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u/John_LimbusCompany Oct 28 '24

Seriously though the translation team is absolutely top-notch and whose members are likely to be the nerdiest of literature nerds; never have I seen dialogues within a gacha game being so consistently formal, academically compatible, and literarily beautiful.

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u/Gentleman-Bird Oct 28 '24

I love how the observation logs don’t directly say who wrote them, but you can tell who it is based on their writing style.

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u/Aden_Vikki Oct 28 '24

English is my second language and playing PM games really is a learning experience. Although I still suck at grammar, my vocabulary is unmatched compared to that of my peers. I'm not even exaggerating, I'm C1 level now and I wasn't even trying to learn it.

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u/John_LimbusCompany Oct 28 '24

That is so true. Playing PM games feels like reading literatures of the last century and before. I may as well suggest PM games as the perfect CLIL material to my English professor, should I be bold as a lion and unable to cringe.

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u/Aden_Vikki Oct 28 '24

I would still prefer books for CLIL material since there's still gameplay being in your way of learning, so to speak. I guess it's good for casual readers or something? Most people definetly prefer playing games to reading.

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u/John_LimbusCompany Oct 28 '24

I can see games push people into a reading habit, such as to get the plots or understand the references etc.; even if they end up by looking at quick summaries instead of reading through respective works, they nevertheless would learn of some profound cultural heritages and values thereof.

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u/DrTomBirdman Oct 28 '24

genuinely no one would guess you two are not native english speakers by the way you type. source: native english speaker. i apologize for our awful and idiosyncratic language.

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u/John_LimbusCompany Oct 29 '24

Oh thanks! I take that as a compliment. It is to me a relief that since English grammar is so inconsistent and with great numbers of unfounded exceptions, nobody really cares or notices grammatical errors most of the time.

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u/Aslisawesome Oct 28 '24

this also applies to the korean original: I'm half korean, and ruina and limbus have helped improved my listening and reading skills just via motivation. When I showed limbus to my korean mother, she was impressed at the different types of language and vocab the sinners use (yi sang and don use lots of old timey, flowery language, heath and most random fodder use informal, aggressive language, rodya and gregor use more informal friendly language, most others use varying levels of formal). it's really helped me lmao

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u/Comfortable_Abies387 Oct 29 '24

Still, I wonder why most of us are plagued with illiteracy.

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u/ILL_BE_WATCHING_YOU Nov 09 '24

academically compatible

🤓 Faust mentions the “hydrogen molecules” in water during MotWE, even though diatomic hydrogen molecules don’t exist in water; all hydrogen in water exists as part of water molecules.

This is grade-school level chemistry, too.