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>>7305408
(A quick aside: Even people who believe that they understand Japanese to a significant degree can and do fall under the umbrella of “bad translators.” Offering a full critique of their actions and misconceptions is beyond the scope of this post, however, so I will refrain… Broaching such a subject is likely to incite blood riots targeted generally at me as well.)

How are you doing a disservice to the original author? Quite simply, failing in that transposition of meaning which I mentioned above is equivalent to misrepresenting the author’s intent to the world. Would it grieve you to see another twist your own words and subsequently proclaim that yes, these are your true feelings on the matter? A poor translation is much the same.

Unintended malice is every bit as cutting – if not more so – than intended malice.

Granted, this bit becomes a bit more hazy when you’re working on crappy moe games, where the author (if not a committee) probably didn’t have anything important to say in the first place, but the reasoning here is somewhat similar to the reasoning behind allowing hate speech under the 1st Amendment…

Finally, I believe it should be quite obvious how a lackluster translation does a disservice to the people who play it. Even if they do not know – or care about – the fact that they are indulging of an inferior product as compared to the original, the implications here are obvious.

Such are my concerns and such are my reasons for… well, I wouldn’t go so far as calling it campaigning… Such are my reasons for ineffectually brandishing my words against the beast known as bad translation.

Hopefully that clears a few things up. Or at least makes me come across as merely an asshole instead of a total asshole.

>>7193812
>he mad

>>6627424
>そのうえで「海外での開発は止める。現在はほとんど止めている」と述
べた。

>unsage

this is the kind of trolls /jp/ always falls for, and then likes to pretend they're untrollable because of shitty atomic bombs threads

>>6519272

>moot
>mugen
>saten
>greentexting

>>5847350
>alienware

I pretty much liked every part of ep 6.

>hey guys it's out go check it's out I swear

>spoiler smilie face
>don't spoiler the only fucking spoilerable thing in that game

>>4950302

>implying Alice is from Bucharest
>implying anime characters look white
>implying Romanians aren't white