Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-67.1.246.12-20130810173702/@comment-118.249.212.32-20140614225145

Weedle McHairybug wrote:

118.249.212.32 wrote: In the E3 2014 trailer, Eli has 3 Chinese characters on the back of his jacket below "never be game over". Those 3 Chinese characters "液体人" literally mean "liquid man".

So he will no doubt be Liquid Snake.

original link Kanji generally has different meanings for different contexts, so we can't be confident that's the case. And besides, if that was the translation, don't you think they would have directly translated it as such in the English trailer instead of, I don't know, translating it into something like "Never Be Game Over?"

I am a native Chinese speaker, I know what I'm talking about when it comes to Chinese characters. Trust me those specific characters can't mean anything else no matter the context.

They wouldn't translate it outright because it was meant to be a hint. If they did, they might as well put english on his jacket in the first place.

BTW I said them below "never be game over" is just for you to locate them more easily, I didn't mean they are the linguistic equivalent of "never be game over".