Warning cries

[pannonian]

From ROCH chapter 27 - Fighting Strength with Wisdom:

Yang Guo knew Xiao Longnu was severely injured. The more they were
delayed, the less time for treatment there was. Anxiety filled his
heart. Fawang called out: “Be careful!” Suddenly the five wheels
returned again, coming side by side about to strike the two people like
five powerful waves. Yang Guo’s whole body strength rushed to his left
arm, the tip of his sword vibrating. ‘dang’ ‘dang’ ‘dang’ sounds echoed
as the sword brushed away the gold, copper and steel wheels. Everyone
was alarmed, dust flew up, and the silver wheel and the lead wheel were
broken, dropping on the ground.

One of the tropes of wuxia fights is one fighter talking to the other during the fight. Here, there is not even the pretence of civility between Yang Guo and Jinlun Fawang. So why does he bother to say "Be careful"?

[flamer]

In chinese, it sounds more like "Watch out!" instead of be careful.

[Candide]

Bad translation.

It should be something like "Take this, b1tch!", delivered with a grin & self-satisfying evil eye contact.

[PJ]

Read it as "Watch carefully how I'm gonna kick your ***."

[Ren Wo Xing]

What PJ and Candide said. 'Be careful' is correct as a direct translation, but doesn't quite convey the meaning.

[AnhHung]

Why the hell would you cry out anything?

[AnhHung]

Vietnamese opera has a similar phrase.

"Block my stance!"

But then again, its opera, they use 20 min to die.

[flamer]

Why the hell would you cry out anything?

It's very very common to commend or comment during a fight. YG even shouted out a praise to GWM in their last fight.

[Dirt]

Sneak attacks are the tools of ninja dogs. Honorable warriors always attack in plain sight. Much like Westerners would say, "En garde!"

[AnhHung]

Sneak attacks are the tools of ninja dogs. Honorable warriors always attack in plain sight. Much like Westerners would say, "En garde!"

En garde is prob the closest thing to what I was trying to say.