Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Phoenix Wright localizers having to come up with increasingly convoluted explanations for keeping the setting is part of the series charm, though. If you didn't love Blackquill being a massive weeb who had to explain the delicate intricacies of Californian Rakugo theatre to a baffled audience, I don't know what to tell you.

Hugoon Chavez posted:

Die hard is called "the crystal jungle". What the gently caress.

Stevie Lee posted:

the gently caress is a polycule

Admiral Ray posted:

Members of a polyamorous grouping in a cubic lattice arrangement, probably a self-centered cubic variant.

La Brea Carpet posted:

Multiple ridicules.

Universe Master posted:

I found a nonhierarchical polycule on my shoulder but the tests came back saying it was benign.

Pvt.Scott posted:

It’s a play on molecule, so a bunch of people orbiting around drama like an element of sorrow.

Theophany posted:

Apologies for the brain damage this may cause...

Known Lecher posted:

I’m sure the atomic mass is high as well.

Pick posted:

"fluid chain" *threw up a lil my mouth*

Ghost Leviathan posted:

There's an old meme comic about comparing different styles of translations, including various hilariously terrible fan dubbers that are probably already long forgotten.

Hugoon Chavez posted:

While true, it's extremely rare in Spanish that someone will refer to a person as Don.

This whole anime dub discussion is English native privilege. Those of us that grew up in another language are used to nonsensical translations of English, ask any Latino about Spain's infamously bad ones and they will start ranting for hours.

Die hard is called "the crystal jungle". What the gently caress.

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

So, if native English speakers complain about a bad translation, it's merely privilege, but if native speakers of other languages complain about poor translations, it's fine? That's an odd conclusion.

That said, from what I see of government-generated EFL materials here in Spain, people should complain a hell of a lot more.

Jerry Cotton posted:

My old warehouse manager used to say "if you hold it in long enough, it turns into flesh".

Communist Walrus posted:

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH I screamed as I shoved the cork up my rear end

Hugoon Chavez posted:

(It was a joke)

Blue Footed Booby posted:

It makes a certain amount of sense, I guess, to have honorifics in stuff literally set in Japan. It gets weird when they're used by characters who are supposed to be Americans in America speaking English.

The manga Delicious in Dungeon has transliterated onomatopoeia with Western equivalents in parentheses.

DOSHA
(WHUMP)

It's so incredibly stupid. loving why??

Hugoon Chavez posted:

It was a broma*

*That's joke in Español**
**That's Spanish in Spanish

Choco1980 posted:

My ex-father in law was a hispanic ex-business owner that took care of the local community. They used the Don prefix when addressing him. So yeah it's used plenty still, but you have to earn it.

Choco1980 posted:

My ex-father in law was a hispanic ex-business owner that took care of the local community. They used the Don prefix when addressing him. So yeah it's used plenty still, but you have to earn it.

Facebook Aunt posted:

Anime is a dumb word. I prefer Japanimation.

Choco1980 posted:

My ex-father in law was a hispanic ex-business owner that took care of the local community. They used the Don prefix when addressing him. So yeah it's used plenty still, but you have to earn it.

SomeJazzyRat posted:

Yeah. It's a parody of a slippery-slope type situation. Sometimes, when fan-translating from Japanese, you run into weird road blocks that can't simply be translated into english. For example, Japan has an unusual cultural hierarchy that demonstrates itself in weird ways. For example, in high school there's the cultural idea of 'Senpai', a kid from a grade higher than you. For some weird reason, you're considered more valid as a person if these 'Senpai' folk acknowledge your existence. Normal people would either be unaware of the trope, or if they were, consider it dumb. But nerdlingers are not normal people. They absorb this knowledge, and to validate their existence needs the world to acknowledge it. Some of these people end up learning Japanese, and use this knowledge to translate their favorite anime. And the Senpai is such an all important concept, one that Japanese high schools practically rotate around. How could you not inform these baka gaijin of this cultural institution, one that the modern nation of Nippon is built around. So in your subtitles, you leave the title unchanged, and add a note explaining the concept.

... Instead of just altering the dialogue to state that the protagonist wants to impress the older kids.

Point being, these dorks will put a note to explain any concept that can't be easily translatable. Sometimes it's food, or locations, or deities, or cultural institutions or trends unfamiliar to the western world. Sometimes it's words like senpai, which could be translated with a bit of exposition, but that requires creativity and understanding intention (rather than marveling at surface level style). This can be taken to extremes, where a fan-translator will refuse to translate a pet word because it holds "so much meaning" that the english language couldn't possibly convey in as few words. The image is imagining that scenario taken to literal extremes, where translators put so much importance on the fan-translation aesthetic that they make unnecessary work for both themselves and the viewer.

If you would like to know more about Senpai's, consult the literature in your local libraries.

I Love Annie May posted:

Customers, this is Makkudonarudo no doraibusurū*

*translator's note: "Makkudonarudo no doraibusurū" means "McDonald's Drive Thru"

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Paladinus posted:

Uhm, actually, in Japan people mostly call McDonald's either MAKKU or MAKUDO. You loving idiot*.

TL note: it means kisama baka in anime Japanese

Spanish Manlove posted:

My favorite honorific is in Spanish and italian where you can respectfully refer to a man as Don <First name>.

Neito posted:

I can kinda see it (it's because the SFX lettering in the Japanese represents a specific set of sounds (for that sound, probably something like ド-サ or どさ) which is an awkward-sounding sound effect in English.

I agree that it's pretty pointless to keep it in (If you wanna learn what the SFX are actually saying, learn the drat JP alphabet, it's not that hard)

Phy posted:

Facebook Aunt posted:

Oh wow, in Italy the US president would be called Don Don. loving DonDon.

theflyingorc posted:

i'm very upset that the triangle isn't actually isosceles

CaptainJuan posted:

Yes it is. Equilateral triangles are isosceles triangles but isosceles triangles are not necessarily equilateral triangles

theflyingorc posted:

I did not know this, but ALSO it should still be called "equilateral" for precision and I'm still mad even though I learned something

CobiWann posted:

As per yesterday's Tanicus session, there is a BIG difference between the definitions of the words "brie" and "bris."

Subjunctive posted:

Yeah, you can eat the rind on Brie.

sneakyfrog posted:

ITS GEOMETRY TIME

sneakyfrog posted:

ITS GEOMETRY TIME

tactlessbastard posted:

Surely you mean triangle class