Questions marks above words.

[Ana]

So, do the question marks that sit above the untranslated Other World language have any meaning? I've seen some have only one ?, while other have three or four.

[Hairy Phil]

That was added in version 3. Previously they were all single question marks. We'll find out on November 1st when the game releases!

[puan]

I saw someone mention it's the amount of characters the word consists of (in Japanese) so it's not very useful to non-Japanese players

[Hairy Phil]

Originally posted by puan:

I saw someone mention it's the amount of characters the word consists of (in Japanese) so it's not very useful to non-Japanese players

Although that's certainly possible, I'm not convinced that it's true. That would mean that there is a "correct" translation for each word, whereas in practise there would be no penalty for entering a synonym, for example, fast/quick/rapid/speedy. So, in an equivalent English system based on number of syllables, if I think the word is "rapid" but the game indicates that the correct word has only one syllable, that would be misleading.

[Bassesses]

Originally posted by Hairy Phil:

Originally posted by puan:

I saw someone mention it's the amount of characters the word consists of (in Japanese) so it's not very useful to non-Japanese players

Although that's certainly possible, I'm not convinced that it's true. That would mean that there is a "correct" translation for each word, whereas in practise there would be no penalty for entering a synonym, for example, fast/quick/rapid/speedy. So, in an equivalent English system based on number of syllables, if I think the word is "rapid" but the game indicates that the correct word has only one syllable, that would be misleading.

I think that the mentionned someone is me.
You can see from the japanese trailer that each question marks are japanese characters: https://x.com/yatu3zi/status/1840587622873231844
It sucks for non-Japanese speakers, but it is what it is until the dev decides to adapt it depending of the language.