Isekai Kenkokuki - Ch. 66

[Maldaris]

I honestly think it's either another misspelling or a translation error. In the context of that conversation, the words 'depth' or 'table' make way more sense than debit. I've never heard the phrase "water debit" before, and the only search I made that resulted in a hit for that specific phrase was for espresso machines.

I swear I've heard something similar to it in a video by someone like Practical Engineering, but I could be just reading past the typo. Like others said, QC for this chapter was pretty poor.

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

OI!! U GOT A LOICENSE FOR THAT?

 

[BlackAeronaut]

With regards to the story itself...

So, our man Almus is getting into some serious public works, looking into aqueducts, flood controls, and highways, as well as setting up a regulating body for Voodoo and Magic.

I know others are scoffing at the idea of long roads having designated pedestrian areas... But you have to remember that in a society this far back in development, the vast majority of travel is done at a walking-pace. Having everyone ride in carts and carriages is actually incredibly rare because your beasts of burden are preciously few, difficult to acquire, and have an absolute requirement of land for grazing - and land ownership is usually in the demesne of the nobility, royalty, and incredibly wealthy merchants.

So if you want a road where you can have fast-traveling wagons in a setting like this one, then you're gonna need both "fast" and "slow" lanes.

I just hope that their farriers are up to the task. Anyone who knows anything about horses will tell you that full-gallops for any duration on a hard, paved surfaces is absolutely brutal to an equine's hooves.

 

[damadicius]

“Mathematic, Physic, and Voodoo” are not words I thought I would get to read in succession within one sentence

 

[Kaarme]

As someone from a country where the ground gets frozen, potentially quite deep, every winter, that layer of clay looked pretty bad in the road construction plan. But of course in a very southern region, like this series is depicting, it doesn't matter at all.

 

[dsfargeg]

I swear I've seen that Roman road construction cutaway before and the artist near-traced it but I couldn't find it after 10 seconds in google and I'm too lazy to put more effort in. This is pretty close though.

This MC is basically a fascist.

Now, we both know fascist just means "person I disagree with online," so I gotta disagree with you, you fascist: He's not on twitter so he can't possibly be disagreeing with you online.

 

[welcome2atlantis]

It uses maths, so Mathemagic. Hehe.

 

[tekkenshu7]

Thanks for the new chapter!

Almus really is starting to build an empire.

 

[AnotherDuck]

A river debt (if I remember correctly) is the idea of how much water you remove from the river for agriculture or consumption purposes. It's about how hard you divert water from the main river. In this case I'm assuming the diagram with the reservoir would be to reduce the need to aggressively channel water away by having a buffer you can draw from as much or little as needed at a time.

I honestly think it's either another misspelling or a translation error. In the context of that conversation, the words 'depth' or 'table' make way more sense than debit. I've never heard the phrase "water debit" before, and the only search I made that resulted in a hit for that specific phrase was for espresso machines.

Going to echo what @Maldaris said. I've heard it in some videos about river flow, groundwater, and dealing with drought. I don't think it's a term they would have in this setting considering their level of technology (although it by no means matches our development anyway), but it gets the point across, at least to me. The intent is to make water access more even over the year and reduce the variance between dry and wet seasons. Or at least that's what it should be about.

I also looked it up just now, and it's used a lot as a synonym for flow rate, which is the volume of water that flows through a cross section of the river over time.

 

[SunSun]

It's okay, they can just redistribute the ware, to areas where they are lacking of water.

This is seriously not up to the usual standards of LH Translation.

Actually it'd be in-line with how they started.

 

[seekermoc]

Why would you need 6m wide roads for pedestrians, but only 4m for carriages?

 

[Goldenzeal]

Good ol' State Alchemist licenses

Basically, But he is also militarizing magic users by making them all work for him.
If he only wanted to prevent fakes he could just have made it so you need a licensee for it given out by the kingdom.
Like you do with driver's licences.

 

[Chaos_Breaker]

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I would hope that water flows to the wet, but never during a floor.

Likely to be a typo and should've said "west" and "flood"

 

[electro_neanderthal]

The rest... I saw a lot of words that were spelled correctly, but were the wrong words entirely. Clearly, someone just gave it the good old "Autocorrupter" pass.

This made me laugh. I tried using Google's auto translate for a WN (the space isekai one), and while I could get the gist of what was happening, the translation was awful.

It often translated I/they/you as the opposite, and so many meanings were switched that, once the human translation caught up it was a night and day difference. It was good enough to tell me what happened, but not good enough to tell me why that made sense.

'Autocorrupter' is definitely an apt term.

Also, you missed words like tsunami (Japanese) and tornado (Spanish). Knowing a bit about German, 'schadenfreude' is probably two smaller words just scrunched together.

English really is like a gluttonous slime monster.

 

[Swift]

So this organization will regulate tobacco and other substances, as well as magic... When do they start shoo... I mean voodoo-ing everyone's dogs?

 

[prismhelix]

iirc the translation quality of LH has been in decline for a couple of years now (staff changes, maybe?), but this is just one of the milder ones.

Still, thanks for the translation.

 

[warlock235813]

That's... not a high bar. That concept was known by the ancient Egyptians and several other ancient cultures. A lot of them didn't have a specific symbol for it, but that didn't mean they didn't understand it. They might not have had a positional system in their specific culture, but that's a slightly different idea.

ive seen this before in another series, it seems authors like using zero as some eldritch knowledge only held in the modern day or some such that any ancient history based world simply doesn't have, or atleast whenever the mc is using mathematics as part of their mc privelages

 

[AnotherDuck]

it seems authors like using zero as some eldritch knowledge

Most authors seem to believe the Dark Ages were actually as portrayed by the Renaissance people, who were the ones looking down on the previous ages and made them out as people who knew nothing and just stumbled around in shit.

Science and technology introduced by isekai protagonists (and adjecant genres) generally come in two varieties: Knowledge that was known well before the Medieval Age, and knowledge only a modern specialist would actually know enough to make use of, and not some random office worker MC.