/lit/ - Literature

>>20342084
The first response does sound correct. I think you don't get it, perhaps because you don't understand Japanese history and culture. Can you name any examples of something you watched that made you feel dumber, that others would say was good?

>>20342121
>You likely don't know anything about the media of those languages so I don't why you would assert this.
You wouldn't consider this an immediate justification? What's the latest good Italian fantasy novel? Or German romance? Or French story about cuisine?
>The advantage of Japanese as a translator, which is not the question here, is that Japanese are fairly insular in their media and backwards/incompetent in their methods and mentality, so there's still lots of demand if you were to move there.
You're right, that wasn't the question here. I've translated several Japanese works into English and that's the perspective I have for this discussion. I wouldn't make a good E->J translator anyway, nor do I think almost anyone who learned Japanese as a second language and wasn't extremely well read in Japanese would.
>No machine translation is 'excellent'.
Agreed, but there's a range of better to worst, and European languages tend to have better machine translation into English than Asiatic languages do. I suspect this is either because of the common Latin/German roots or the predominance of engineers working on such systems being Western.
What are we talking about again?
>This isn't true at all. Japanese media is trash
That's a matter of opinion. I feel confident my post stands on its merits, even if some /lit/ posters would prefer to study German to read German lit, or Russian to read Russian lit, or French to read French lit.

>>6797637
>gentlesir
Can you at least try to pretend you're not a redditor?