The Astronauts' Adrian Chmielarz tells the story about the cancelled '90s Witcher video game, and how he coined the term "The Witcher".
    • actionjbone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Context.

      It’s not that he invented the word, exactly.

      It’s that he coined the term as a translation for the Polish word. Because the Polish word didn’t have a direct English translation before, and now it basically does.

      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        3 months ago

        The Polish translation of witcher czarodziej, I guess?
        (Didn’t find it in a Polish-English dictionary, but my Polish-German dictionary tells my that czarodziej is the translation of the German Hexer, which means witcher in English).

        So how does czarodziej differ from wiedźmin?

        • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Just discovered it is even more complex.
          Apparently the Polish name is an invention by the author, too.

          From Wikipedia:

          Sapkowski states that he believes the word “witcher” is a natural male version of the English word “witch”, and implied that the similarity between those two words, as well as between the German terms, was the inspiration coining wiedźmin as a new Polish word.