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new-haven-psych-ward · 2 years ago

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trying to find good subs for shows is just deciding what your tolerance level is for:

untranslated words like language-specific honorifics, words with "too much culture-specific context" that are "impossible" to find a 1-to-1 correspondence, my nakama, or any term you saw floating around on the internet in the early 2010's and prior MAXIMUM PROFANITY where any word that could maybe be considered vulgar is taken to its FULL FUCKING POTENTIAL

the op and ed never being translated :'( waiting months for updates and not being sure if a sub group killed this project or not

#listen translating is hard #if you do this as a hobby or job i got mad respect #just subtitling in the same language is time consuming and difficult #so like having to translate on top of that?#major effort #don't let people convince you otherwise #however i hate language snobs with a vengeance #there is no True Translation #every word being translated requires a decision to be made #you will inevitably lose something when translating #HOWEVER that does not mean you should keep as many words untranslated as possible #the goal of translating is making a work accessible to more people who previously couldn't access it #if you are keeping words untranslated without explaining jack you aren't doing that #yes there are some legit big Culture jumps that can be insanely tricky to explain #but i respect people who try over those who don't #if you wanna include a text file explaining your decisions tbh that'd be rad as hell #footnote that bitch that's cool #you wanna release translations fifteen years after the fact? understandable have nice day #songs are too difficult to understand so you're skipping those? fair enough #(unless you're a company in which case what's wrong with you)#(I fucking hate how crunchyroll will switch between having themes translated or showing the lyrics)#(ik you have both you have shown me you have both - just put both on screen why are you like this)#but keeping things untranslated in the name of “Style” is pretentious as all hell #needlessly gatekeep-y

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