ursonor99 Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 I just finished the emperor's soul Read it from the book "legion and the emperor's soul " What I noticed was that all the names in this version was different from the standalone book and the version in arcanum unbound Wan shailu - shuluxez Gaotona- drawigurlurburnur (yes I know ) Ashravan- ashravvy Frava- frovilliti Anyone know the reason ? Searching this alternate names don't give any results . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iarwainiel I Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 For real? This is extremely weird! I hope someone here on the Shard - a Moderator maybe - can answer this for you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eternal Khol Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 (edited) thats soo strange! i think it must be a foreign copy printed in english or something. i found a copy online and they also spell "women" as "wohmeen" and "manhn" instead of "man" and "limestone" as "lymbrog" some other weird ones are "soulmarker" and "soulgem" and "arbeetree" XD Edited June 17, 2020 by Eternal Khol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShara Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 That's...awfully weird. Is it a different language version, perhaps? Or an ebook that's been corrupted? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comatose Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 Just a note that this topic was initially posted twice in two different places - responses have been merged into one single topic, and discussion can continue here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ursonor99 Posted June 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 48 minutes ago, Eternal Khol said: thats soo strange! i think it must be a foreign copy printed in english or something. i found a copy online and they also spell "women" as "wohmeen" and "manhn" instead of "man" and "limestone" as "lymbrog" some other weird ones are "soulmarker" and "soulgem" and "arbeetree" XD Yess my copy had these spellings too .. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iarwainiel I Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 @Chaos - Have you seen this thread? Know anything about these weird words in some copies of The Emperor's Soul? I'm hoping it's not some rogue publisher trying to pirate Brandon's books. (I am NOT saying that the person who bought the book did anything wrong - quite the opposite: maybe the company who sold it to them, or maybe that company's supplier, might have been cheated by someone.) Just very weird. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 Huh, I have no idea. I hadn't heard of this before. I'm going to ping @PeterAhlstrom to see if he knows. It may be some protection against piracy. Where'd you get this epub? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiberty Posted June 19, 2020 Report Share Posted June 19, 2020 (edited) A quick Google search reveals that this file is from a site called you-books.com. The site appears to have a library of ebooks uploaded by the users, then made available free for download. One interesting thing to note is that it asks for ebook uploads to be in .fb2 file format. Somebody must have combined Legion and The Emperor's Soul into one file, changed all of the the Emperor's Soul names, then uploaded it to you-books. I have no idea for what purpose someone would do that, though. Edit: I think that you-books.com is Russian site, so it is definitely possible that the name swap was caused by an very odd translation error. Edited June 19, 2020 by ChickenLiberty 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyLameness Posted June 19, 2020 Report Share Posted June 19, 2020 1 hour ago, ChickenLiberty said: Somebody must have combined Legion and The Emperor's Soul into one file, changed all of the the Emperor's Soul names, then uploaded it to you-books. I have no idea for what purpose someone would do that, though. There's actually a combined Legion/Emperor's Soul Gollancz edition so it might have been this that was started with instead of each book individually. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ursonor99 Posted June 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2020 (edited) Eh , ya it's a pirated copy . I am a student in not so developed country and can't afford to buy all books I read . So if it means some ban I can understand.... I got this copy from [removed by moderator] But here is some more information about it because this wierds me out and would like to find some answers . Not just the names are changed . As @Eternal Khol stated man is replaced by mahn , woman by wohmeen . Another wierd alteration is some words like should , could , would and some other words are replaced by "chungt" and a past tense of it . initially I thought this might be some inworld slang like you see in Elantris (kolo) But this word appears in acknowledgement too . Another more wierder thing is the dedication in this copy is different from the other editions !! It says for "For Jim Rustler , whose key lemon pies always brought a smile to my face " instead of being dedicated to Lucie Tuan and sherry Wang So if this is a altered copy ,then it is done carefully because there were no grammatical errors that stood out. @ChickenLiberty. @Chaos . Will post screenshots for this in next post . I hope it helps .. Edited June 19, 2020 by Chaos 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ursonor99 Posted June 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2020 (edited) i don't see any of this spellings in the legion section Edited June 19, 2020 by ursonor99 the photos didnt upload 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoWibble Posted June 19, 2020 Report Share Posted June 19, 2020 Weird. Chungt seems to replace random verbs and adjectives. What does it have for the copyright? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted June 19, 2020 Report Share Posted June 19, 2020 Right, so since this is a pirated copy, there isn't actually any issue here as it's not something any publisher did. I'm locking this thread. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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