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<p>I bought this sword online.  No idea what it says.</p>

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2015-02-27T00:54:06.527Z
Translation requests are not on topic here at chinese.se, sorry. P.S. you're holding it upside down: 今古有神奉志士 and that makes this a replica sword from the movie The Last Samurai, making it Japanese, and not Chinese. According to the movie, it says "I belong to the warrior in whom the old ways have joined the new." - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325710/quotes?item=qt0456450
Ming
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2015-02-27T01:13:29.020Z
can we establish a subreddit for these kinds of requests? And or get the site to automatically flash a suggestion to redirect the request elsewhere when it detects words like "translate" or "translation" coming from people with below X reputation.
Master Sparkles
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2015-02-27T01:25:13.730Z
Interesting idea @MasterSparkles!
Ming
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2015-02-27T02:31:16.830Z
And the translation given by the movie seems fairly far from what the characters say.  OP should find someone who knows Japanese to discuss it with him.
Colin McLarty
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Can anyone translate? Etching on the sword
# Can anyone translate? Etching on the sword

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-02-27)

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I bought this sword online. No idea what it says.

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Translation requests are not on topic here at chinese.se, sorry. P.S. you're holding it upside down: 今古有神奉志士 and that makes this a replica sword from the movie The Last Samurai, making it Japanese, and not Chinese. According to the movie, it says "I belong to the warrior in whom the old ways have joined the new." - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325710/quotes?item=qt0456450  
> **username_2**: can we establish a subreddit for these kinds of requests? And or get the site to automatically flash a suggestion to redirect the request elsewhere when it detects words like "translate" or "translation" coming from people with below X reputation.  
> **username_1**: Interesting idea @username_2!  
> **username_3**: And the translation given by the movie seems fairly far from what the characters say.  OP should find someone who knows Japanese to discuss it with him.  

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