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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Illuminae" data-source="post: 350836" data-attributes="member: 4253">Just you try. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Tenta pra você ver. heheheTrue, but that´s EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY DID. Without knowing the 2 languages well, and using a cheap pocket dictionary, yes.By the way, using only a dictionary instead of experience and knowledge of both languages and the game, spring could also be translated as Primavera, meaning the Spring (season of the year). WRONG.It doesn´t.*Mola* means spring, an object made of usually metal, helicoidally shaped, used in mechanical systems.Many a word in english have its form directly linked to the idea that originated them in first place. Thus, the idea for spring in english is something like *something once restrained or compacted, being released or (re)assuming its real (or new and greater) form, quickly or not*That is why both the Season where the flowers bloom and the mechanical element use the same word in english : SPRING.But in portuguese, the season is PRIMAVERA, beacause of other language related origins, and MOLA means the mechanical piece.If you want to use the word mola to describe the feat, you would have to use another word to modify and clarify its original meaning, something like *EFEITO MOLA*, or *SPRINGING EFFECT* in English again. Yes, it does.Now the confusion is yours, my friend.*GRANDE* means both BIG and GREAT in english, depending on how you use the word.If GRANDE is placed BEFORE a word it brings the idea of GREAT.If placed AFTER it brings the idead of BIG.EXAMPLES:Um grande homem.A *GREAT* man.Um homem grande.A *BIG* man.Another one, just for fun:BOM, BOA : GOODUma boa garota.A *GOOD* girl.Uma garota boa.A *HOT* girl.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Thus, the better pulled-directly-from-the-dictionary translation should be GRANDE ESPADA, not ESPADA GRANDE (which means BIG SWORD)For the not portuguese speakers ou there: there is a form some words can take that give them an idea of the size of the material object they represent.Thus, BIG SWORD = ESPADA GRANDE = ESPADÃO*REALLY FRIGGIN´ STUPID NAME FOR AN OBJECT THAT CUTS HEADS OFF!*(and flips out ALL THE TIME, SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />, sorry, I couldn´t resist)That and more give me the impression that they used Power Translator Pro to translate the books.Mistaken AGAIN. They used the infamous ESPADÃO!!!Keeping MONTANTE would be MUCH BETTER.Even using *ESPADA DE DUAS MÃOS* (2-handed Sword) would be better.</blockquote>

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