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Friendly reminder that 女子力 is not "girl power".
So "女子力が高い！" should never be translated as "Wow, you have so much girl power!" 🥲
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I can't decide which makes me sadder about the CR thing, the fact that they have so much money, they absolutely COULD afford to pay their translators better, or the fact that no matter how much we all say 'this is bad!', they won't change their practices.
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Feeling very bittersweet about the Funi/Crunchy merge today. On one hand, great for the fans!
But I worry about what effect this will have on the anime localization industry.
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Leaving words in their source language ('borrowing') creates learning opportunities for readers and makes things easier on the translator.
But when done to an extreme, borrowing hurts the original work by making equivalent experience impossible. Let's talk translation theory!🧵 twitter.com/ProZD/status/1…
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👏YES!! 👏
THIS KIND OF STUFF (ADAPTIVE SUBTITLING) SHOULD BE:
(A) STANDARD FOR ALL SHOWS
(B) SOMETHING WE PAY A TRANSLATOR AND SUBTITLE TIMER/DESIGNER EXTRA FOR twitter.com/G0ffThew/statu…
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Okay. Okay. Let's talk about translating 「許さない」.
Why do JA>EN translators get it so wrong all the time, and how can we avoid the same shortcomings, lest we, too, never be forgiven?
JA-EN Localization Specialist & Producer!
TL for Sentai, 7 Seas. Prev. SEGA, Funimation. She/her.
Opinions are my own! I ♥ translation theory.
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