Jaroslav Beneš
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Compiles the wordplay/puns, coined & provisional terms, gender guesses, and register/length flags scattered across PLAN.md batch notes and the glossary into one checklist for the Slovak-speaking human review pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review notes — things to check in the Slovak human review pass
Consolidated list of wordplay, coined terms, gender guesses, and register calls
that the machine-assisted first pass flagged. Work through these with a
Slovak-speaking eye. Grouped by type; idx = position in the flat <entry>
list where useful. See glossary.md and ../PLAN.md
for the locked terms and per-batch context.
1. Puns & wordplay (hardest to get right)
| Where | English | Current SK | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gabbro, satellite (idx ~460–466) | "Ol' Spacey" (the deep-space satellite; "Ol'" = affectionate "old") | Vesmírko | Nickname folded to a diminutive that carries affection via form, not oldness. Line 465 ("'Ol'' is more a term of affection") therefore explains starký/old while the name is Vesmírko — mild disconnect. Consider a nickname that keeps the "old" beat, e.g. Starký / Vesmírko starký. |
| Gabbro (idx 1353) | "you just got Feldsparred" | ...práve ťa Feldsparovalo | Invented verb from a name; keep or rework. |
| Gabbro (idx 399 etc.) | "Statue Island ...Get it?" (it's the island with the statue) | Ostrov sôch ...Chápeš? | The "get it?" gag barely lands in SK since the wordplay is thin even in EN. OK, but confirm. |
| Chert (idx 1979) | "Keep an eye or four on the stars" (Hearthians have >2 eyes) | Maj oči — pokojne aj štyri — na hviezdach | Multi-eye joke; check it reads naturally. |
| Player self (idx 252) | "we are the Feldspar of weird time stuff" | sme Feldsparom čudných časových vecí | Idiom "the X of Y"; fine but review. |
| Ghost-matter kid (idx 1702) | "All pew pew pew!" | Také pyu pyu pyu! | Onomatopoeia choice. |
| Feldspar note (idx 1350) | "Hornfels, ya burnt marshmallow" (insult) | Hornfels, ty pripálený marshmallow | Insult + the kept loanword marshmallow (see §2). |
| Porphy, sap wine (idx 1478, 1490) | "The Good Stuff"; bottles labeled "structural collapse" / "house fire" | To Pravé; „zrútenie konštrukcie" / „požiar domu" | Bar/booze humor; confirm tone. |
| Chert (idx 1994) | "On a scale of one to dead, I'd give it a seven or eight" | Na škále od jeden po smrť... | Keep the deadpan. |
| Feldspar jellyfish journal (idx 2181) | "Boring crashes: 0 (a personal best!)" / "entry #... 'not 1'" | translated literally | Feldspar's swagger; check voice. |
| Fishing rhymes (idx 1540, 1567, 1576) | fishing rhyme/song/tune couplets (the 3rd deliberately fails to rhyme) | rendered loosely to keep a rhyme | 1567 rhymes pesnička/celička; 1576 intentionally drops the rhyme (matches the EN joke). Review for taste. |
| Nomai, Pye/Ramie (batch 5–6) | "gas / aeriform" state-of-matter puns; Pye's supernova/"gas" humor | flagged in batch notes | Physics/gas double meaning — verify it survives. |
| Nomai, Conoy (batch 6) | "lose his head" joke | flagged | Idiom. |
| Nomai, Melorae (batch 7) | "my sedimentary friend" (geologist pun) | flagged | Rock pun on "sedentary". |
| Nomai idiom (glossary) | "on the other appendage" (hand-joke; Nomai have appendages) | Na druhej končatine | Locked, but re-read in context. |
| Idaea (batch 11) | Sun Station "mission" humor | flagged | Deadpan Nomai humor. |
Character names are themselves geology/rock puns (Slate, Feldspar, Gabbro, Chert, Gneiss, Tuff, Tephra, Porphy, Arkose, Mica, Moraine, Hornfels, …) — kept in English by design (see glossary §1). No action unless we ever localize names.
2. Coined / provisional terms (no prior canon — confirm rendering)
| English | Current SK | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ol' Spacey | Vesmírko | provisional (see §1) |
| Statue Island (Gabbro's coinage) | Ostrov sôch | provisional |
| Lunar Outpost (Esker's, on the Attlerock) | Mesačná základňa | provisional |
| Youngbark Crater | Kráter Mladej kôry | provisional (blockC) |
| Quantum Grove Crater | Kráter Kvantového hája | provisional (blockC) |
| The Good Stuff (sap wine) | To Pravé | provisional |
| marshmallow | marshmallow (kept) | decide: keep loanword or sladká pena? Be consistent. |
| Twilight Twin (Nomai warp-tower lines) | Súmračné dvojča | ❓ unusual term — confirm meaning/rendering |
| Echoes of the Eye (DLC title) | Ozveny Oka in prose | ❓ keep EN on store/menu title strings? |
| Distant Nomai places (batch 10) | Súmračná galaxia, Čierna skala, Jasná iskra | flagged |
3. Gender guesses to verify against the game
Outer Wilds uses they/them for all Hearthians, so gender is textually unspecified. Slovak past tense forces a gender, so the first pass defaulted to masculine for everyone not otherwise cued. Verify in-game whether any of these are canonically female (would flip verbs/adjectives):
- Village kids & villagers: Marl, Tephra, Galena, Rutile, Tuff, Spinel, Arkose, Gneiss, Porphy, Mica, Moraine, Tektite.
- Travelers: Gabbro, Riebeck, Feldspar, Chert, Esker — all masculine by the glossary default.
- Ground crew: Hornfels, Hal, Gossan, Slate — masculine (Hornfels & Hal confirmed masculine in existing SK).
- Locked female (from EN pronoun cues): Solanum, Poke, Clary, Ramie, Pye, Filix, Melorae, Privet. Locked male: Annona, Coleus, Avens, Plume, Idaea.
If the community/game establishes a canonical gender for any Hearthian, update the glossary §5b table and re-pass that speaker's lines.
4. Register & length
- Nomai text walls — keep the formal, precise, courteous voice; watch length vs. the in-game panels (utility supports variable length, but very long walls should stay tight).
- Chert's panic stammer (idx 2029–2031, 2076–2077) — rendered as a-a-ale / d-d-dúfam / m-možno. Check it reads as anxious, not broken.
- Kids' register — playful, casual ty; player often mláďa. Make sure the kid voices don't sound adult.
- Player self-talk (the "two of you" convo, idx 169–308) — both speakers are the player, masculine, mutual ty; screams left verbatim.
5. Left verbatim on purpose (not for translation)
Panic-scream onomatopoeia (idx 174, 267–286), sick-noises (Hurgh…, idx
1666/1685), shy-kid silences (…), Kickstarter backer credit names (idx
2408–2415), and the ASCII-art easter eggs (idx 2416–2418, only embedded words
like LOADING → NAČÍTAVA SA were translated). Leave these as-is.