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Jyrki21
Rebel Sell + Moneyball = Life
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Posts: 1393
Location: Ottawa, ON
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 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:33 am Post subject: HNIC in Mandarin |
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I imagine the Canucks and Leafs fanbases would provide the largest audiences for this guy, so perhaps it wasn't the best year to launch this program, but still cool!
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Jason Wang settles into his booth at the CBC studios in Vancouver, his notes spread across a large table in front of a gigantic television monitor.
It's Hockey Night In Canada, and Wang is preparing to call Monday's Game 3 of the Montreal Canadiens-Philadelphia Flyers Stanley Cup playoff series.
Bob Cole needn't fret about the competition, though. Wang is not a rival, but rather a companion. He's doing his play-by-play in Mandarin as part of a CBC initiative to reach out to non-English-speaking hockey fans.
Wang is doing it no frills, too. He doesn't have a colourful sidekick to provide analysis and he's a continent away from the live action in Philly. Nonetheless, he's still fulfilling a lifelong dream to follow his announcing heroes Jim Robson and Jim Hughson.
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He is becoming something of a celebrity along the way. He's been interviewed by a national news service and a Toronto daily. The Chinese press, he noted, has been all over the story.
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"I job-shadowed Sean McCormick at Sports Page and that kind of piqued my interest," he explained. "When I was in my third year at UBC, I signed up with the campus radio station, CITR, to broadcast their varsity sports."
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Doing hockey, he admitted, is a challenge. He began with the Montreal-Boston first-round series and devoted a week of research into translating hockey terminology into Mandarin.
Wang adopted from other sports where he could and "invented" what he couldn't find. In some cases, he surrendered to the language altogether and resorted to calling icing as "icing." Team and player names also remain in English, as does Coach's Corner with Don Cherry.
"Basketball rules have an interference foul that I can borrow and the catcher in baseball has similar motions to the goalie, so those I can borrow, too," Wang said. "I leave the inventions as minimal as possible."
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MANDARIN PLAY-BY-PLAY
Jason Wang has created his own way of calling hockey in Mandarin. Here's the literal translation of some notable hockey terms:
1. Hitting the post: "His shot hit the door frame."
2. The trap: "Playing really conservative with four players in the neutral zone trying to stop passes."
3. Back-checking: "Retreating from offence to defence."
4. Cross-checking: "Using your stick to push."
5. Power play: "More players on the ice against fewer players on the ice."
6. Diving: "Pretending to fall down."
7. Sucker-punch: "Coming from behind and throwing a punch unexpectedly."
8. High-sticking: "Lifting your stick too high and hitting somebody with it."
9. Great save: "The goalie blocked the shot."
10. He shoots! He scores! "A shot on goal! And then a goal!" |
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Stinky
Morally Bankrupt Scum
Joined: 19 Oct 2007
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Kung fu hockey? Awsome. I want to watch the Japanese MXC dubbed version...
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Lillith
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Joined: 20 Oct 2007
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Location: Second Star to the Right
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And when the broadcast is over, do you want to see another game in an hour?
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Hounsy
Reigning King of One-Liners
Joined: 17 Oct 2007
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My initial mental response at the thread header was "who goes to a buffet to watch hockey?"
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