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(one of the world's funniest mistranslations: ヤンキー as in 'delinquent', not literal Yankee.) twitter.com/kochomaii/stat…
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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?
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I am absolutely outraged.
I was the Localization Coordinator on the project up until I left SEGA, constantly in connection with the FIGS teams.
I told the team who took over for me to credit the FIGS team. They worked incredibly hard to localize TWO GAMES.
Unbelievable. twitter.com/Tamslator/stat…
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So... Tencent, a multi-million dollar company with multiple huge titles, is asking for 'volunteers' they'll pay in gacha money to localize their games?
How many times do we have to say this?
If you wouldn't ask 'volunteers' to make other parts of your game, DON'T DO THIS! twitter.com/RocketPunch122…
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Remember, friends, if the game you purchased is full of really obvious bugs, don't blame QA! Blame the producers and executives who said "release it anyways (so we can make money)"!
I guarantee you QA workers--usually paid minimum wage for boring repetitive work--flagged them. 😉
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If you couldn't attend my anime translation panel at #AnimeExpo, my slides are now online!
Learn how to write better dialogue with equivalence theory, find the purpose of words with functionalism, and re-examine Shrek with polysystem theory.
Link in the comments! 👇
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And yet somehow, pay for the people who bring these manga to this thriving EN audience are paid less than they were 20 years ago... where are all the profits going? 🤔 twitter.com/juliusqueezer/…
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I'm SO glad they changed the Moenbryda minion description in FFXIV!
But I'm still a little concerned that somewhere out there, there's a localizer who thought the original loc was appropriate... and a team that kept it in this long.
Before, after, original JP:
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Shout out to all the translators, VAs, journalists, and other people in the anime industry calling out CR for their practices today -- especially knowing they'll be risking their careers doing so, when 80% of the potential anime dubbing projects are only available through CR.
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this is the perfect time to share this slide about "cosplay
photo etiquette"from the hentai panel at Fanime this year, which garnered a mixed reaction from the crowd, but tearful laughter from me and other veteran congoers
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Anime, manga, and LN translators, we need to talk.
Y'see, there's something very, very important a lot of ya'll aren't in the habit of doing.
Sit down and let's talk...
...about terminology management. 🧵
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So excited to announce that I'm the Localization Coordinator for the release of P3P and P4G on Xbox and Windows! 🥳🎉 twitter.com/Atlus_West/sta…
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I manually typed out and examined all 826 lines of dialogue in Volume 1 of Ranking of Kings to compare the official release to the previously-released scanlation.
67% of all dialogue is a direct copy or slightly edited copy of the fan translation.
More details in the 🧵⬇️
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While I'm being loud about credits, y'know what would be great?
Crediting the translator / subtitler / localization team at the end of every episode on @Crunchyroll.
HIDIVE does it. No reason CR can't.
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Why is every app a 'service' now? Why does Word now want me paying $100/year to use it? What happened to buying software that lasts forever?
This capitalist hellscape we're living in where the Line Has To Go Up Every Year is killing us.
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Just spent a few hours analyzing the differences between the official release of Ranking of Kings and the scanlation that predates it.
42% of all dialogue in chapter 1-3's official 'translation' is DIRECTLY LIFTED from the scanlation.🧵
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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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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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👏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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If you're not a translator, but are interested in learning more about translation, there's now a free textbook you can read!
De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to Non-translators
taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/…
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Update with screenshots.
@KeywordsStudios and @SEGA have only credited their producer and project managers -- NONE of the translators who actually wrote the millions of words FIGS players will be reading are credited.
For. Shame. twitter.com/katrinaltrnsl8…
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Last I heard, some holdovers from Funimation are being paid around $240 per episode.
That was the rate offered to people who were being paid MORE than that at Funi for the "opportunity to continue working with them". twitter.com/marinmmillerVO…
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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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Do I have to tap the sign again?
Jokes aside, this is not only a mistranslation, but a violation of translator ethics. They're intentionally avoiding an equivalent translation to further their own personal agenda. twitter.com/ChrisGLink/sta…
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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