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<blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 3858400" data-attributes="member: 319">Gah... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Ok, let me try it again. &quot;Wiedzmin&quot; (or &quot;Witcher&quot;) is a neologism in Polish - it's a word the author of the novels came up with, so there is no set, conventional way to translate it into English.If he wanted to call the character a &quot;warlock&quot;, he could have done that - there's an existing word for it. He didn't, though, because the whole point was - since Polish is a language in which nouns have gender - to create a new one, derived specifically from &quot;wiedzma&quot; or &quot;witch&quot;, which is a feminine noun. It's an intentional bastardization of the language intended to emphasize their outsider status (and an insult, in a male-dominated society), not an indication that the people responsible didn't know how to translate &quot;warlock&quot;.Still, it does sound a lot better in Polish than in English.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmu1, post: 3858400, member: 319"] Gah... :) Ok, let me try it again. "Wiedzmin" (or "Witcher") is a neologism in Polish - it's a word the author of the novels came up with, so there is no set, conventional way to translate it into English. If he wanted to call the character a "warlock", he could have done that - there's an existing word for it. He didn't, though, because the whole point was - since Polish is a language in which nouns have gender - to create a new one, derived specifically from "wiedzma" or "witch", which is a feminine noun. It's an intentional bastardization of the language intended to emphasize their outsider status (and an insult, in a male-dominated society), not an indication that the people responsible didn't know how to translate "warlock". Still, it does sound a lot better in Polish than in English. [/QUOTE]

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