you spend the week attending fancy gatherings!

atla-annotated:

The Boy from the Iceberg - Poster

One’s War Criminals are Another’s Prisoners of War

 Sokka edits for … content >:D

My translation:

The Boy from the Iceberg

Earth Kingdom’s famous playwright Pu An-Tian’s new work (features)
globally collected information about the Avatar. The information (was gathered) from the icebergs of the South Pole to the Earth Kingdom capital. The information (was gathered) from Nomad singers, pirates, war criminals and a vegetable merchant.  

Starring the Ember Island Players.

What Sokka and Suki said:

Sokka: “The Boy in the Iceberg is a new production from acclaimed playwright Pu-on Tim, who scoured the globe gathering information on the Avatar, from the icy South Pole to the heart of Ba Sing Se. His sources include singing nomads, pirates, prisoners of war, and a surprisingly knowledgeable merchant of cabbage.”

Suki: “Brought to you by the critically acclaimed Ember Island Players.”

Note:

The Chinese on the poster reads ‘War Criminals’, not ‘Prisoners of War’. 

战犯 - war criminal

战俘 - prisoner of war

The poster does not actually mention anything about ‘a knowledgable Cabbage Merchant’ or the Ember Island Players being critically acclaimed. The difference in author name is imho due to different transliteration and well… bad pronunciation. (*cough* remember  ’Long Feng’)

 

浦安添 Pu An-Tian, the playwrite’s name, means: 

浦 surname meaning: Riverbank or shore

安 peaceful, quiet (same character as Aang’s name)

添 to increase

If there is a pun on that name, I am missing it. 浦安 is:

Urayasu

City in Japan

Urayasu is a city located in the far western corner of northern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of April 2012, the city had an estimated population of 163,013 and a population density of 9430 persons per km². The total area was 17.29 km². Wikipedia

but I doubt that has any significance. 

And the original Chinese

冰山上的男孩

土国著名剧作家

浦安添新作搜集

全球有关降世神通

资料由南极冰山至

土国首都资料来自

牧民歌手海盗战犯

和菜贩由余烬岛演

员主演

i really like how this subtlety indicates that the fire nation considers all of its prisoners of war war criminals, and that sokka obviously sees through that immediately