Why the hell is the description of the inter-dimensional ship in Finnish?

Astrojensen said:
Why the hell is the description of the inter-dimensional ship in Finnish?

Because the ships were clearly designed by Moomins.

Kryptik said:
Because the ships were clearly designed by Moomins.

If I was able to post weren't it for the posting limit, I'd totally say that.

Ship captions are almost totally machine translations. Anyone with better knowledge of Finnish and/or sailing terms, please feel free to adjust them.

Ran it by a friend; the finnish is actually pretty bullshit, so no worries.

Kryptik said:
Because the ships were clearly designed by Moomins.

Makes sense to me.

Moonspeaker said:
Ship captions are almost totally machine translations. Anyone with better knowledge of Finnish and/or sailing terms, please feel free to adjust them.

That's OK, the original Finnish is probably also machine translated with some English worlds added.

"Ship ulottuvuus muuntaminen" is probably trying to say "Ulottuvuuksien välinen alus" or "Inter-dimensional ship". The rest of the terms are probably more correct in English translations than in Finnish, but I'm not expert on naval terms.

So basically Touhou is slowly becoming one of those lands of fantasy stories that come from ages of novels Oz, Narnia, and the like. Middle Earth might not be that far behind save that it isn't quite so magical at the others.

Figured that had to be Aya

ithekro said:
So basically Touhou is slowly becoming one of those lands of fantasy stories that come from ages of novels Oz, Narnia, and the like. Middle Earth might not be that far behind save that it isn't quite so magical at the others.

Well, Gensou Koumuten's version of Gensokyo is like that. The best guide for the "real" direction of Touhou would be the original games. Fan interpretations go in all directions.

Middle Earth might not be that far behind save that it isn't quite so magical at the others.

Gensokyo is already connected to the 'outside world' which in the games' timeline is only magical in the Clarke's Third Law sense if at all. With that in mind there's probably nothing stopping the dimensional ships from traveling to and from any given world.

I would be very interested in an adventure story in this world going around, looking for new dimensions.

Dang, Aya wrote a great article to wrap up this story.