Episode 3: English Subtitles

Wow, this took me forever. I can't imagine how long it's gonna take after I'm done with Episode 4 and have to work purely from scratch.

The English subtitles for Episode 3 are finally complete. Some notes...

-Rather than trying to translate the meaning behind everyone's names, which I realized now was really stupid, I'm just going to write them in their phonetic form instead. It all started with Diwa, Aqing's little brother, whose name really means something like "little brother doll," so I called him "Baby Bro" in the Ep1 and Ep2 subs. From now on, I'm just going to put the names in their "pinyin" form, and I'm taking out the hiphens as well from now on, so A-Qing is now Aqing.

If you're not familiar with Chinese names, here's a little cultural tidbit to help you follow the names better. The Chinese language is very familial and personable in its ways of addressing one another. People are often addressed as Big/Little/Old/Young Brother or Sister, for example. Also, the way you often give specific nicknames is by taking part of a given name and adding "A" to it, which makes it informal sounding. That's why the main character, whose name is really Li Qing (Li is his surname, Qing is his given name), is called Aqing for short. Also, another common practice is by adding "Xiao" in front of the name, which literally translates to "Little." Or, sometimes you take part of the name and just repeat it. So, take me for example... My given name is Jianhong, and so my family calls me Honghong as a nickname.

-As a reminder, I continued my practice of labeling the language that the dialogue is in, if it's NOT in Mandarin. So, in this episode, [T] still means Taiwanese, and [J] will mean Japanese.

-Various people have reached out and written comments about their willingness to help. I've not been very good with following up with you on this... Before I get to work on Episode 4, I'm going to: (a) Follow up with everybody, (b) Find a way to provide access to the episode video files for the upcoming episodes that need to be translated, and (c) Make a post providing formal instructions on how everyone can start COLLABORATING, and include a To-Do list!

Here's something simple that needs to be done... Anyone able to go through Episodes 1 and 2, and fill in any of those lines that I left blank, when I had no idea what was being said? Also, anyone want to help convert all the A-Qings into just Aqing, and all the Baby Bros into Diwa?

And finally, here is the download link for the English subtitles of Crystal Boys Episode 3:

[revised 3/7/2010 - Thank you, Gay Asian Films, for letting me know about the subs not working right after the beginning. It's because I made an error in the sub formatting. I've fixed it and uploaded the revised file...]
http://www.mediafire.com/file/omwkjdyqjy0/cb_ep3_eng_v2.srt