Board Thread:Wiki/@comment-30049797-20160924003216/@comment-27441457-20160925223102

CaptFredricks wrote:

GodKingReiss wrote: On a slightly related note, I think I've uncovered how Abel and Florian got mistaken for boys in Kodansha's translation.

The original dialogue translates roughly as either "He crushed 14-year-old Dirk and 12-year-old Abel. He trampled 10-year-old Florian and my wife who held her." (14歳のディルクと12歳のエーベルを叩き潰し. 10歳のフロリアンを抱えた妻こと踏みつけ). Again, Google Translate couldn't make anything useful from this, so this is what I'm roughly guessing.

But in any case, Kodansha's translation of this reads as: "He crushed Dirk, who was fourteen, and his brother Abel, who was twelve. He stomped Florian, still only ten, along with his mother, as they held onto each other." It seems Kodansha decided to do some embellishing for a smoother translation, but accidentally confused the genders by calling Abel Dirk's "brother" rather than "sister", and saying "his mother" rather than "her mother" for Florian's part. This last part is a strange embellishment choice though, since (unless I've screwed up copying the kanji and/or Google Translate is wrong) the original text says "my wife", spoken by Rod, rather than "her mother".

If I've messed up somewhere, feel free to correct me. I mean, Google translate isn't exactly known for its accuracy, especially with phrases or whole sentences. Google Translate gives me this for the translation: "Crushed beating Ebel of Dirk and the 12-year-old 14-year-old. Trampled that 10-year-old wife was holding a Florian."

Obviously that's not what Isayama was trying to convey.