#its always the monolingual motherfuckers whove never tried translating a fucking mcdonalds menu
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i could write an entire thesis abt this but its 3am and i have work in the morning so you'll have to deal with just this snippet of a twitter thread i just wrote.
#moogsin'#localization#i will die mad#do you HEAR ME.#I WILL DIE. MAD.#its always the monolingual motherfuckers whove never tried translating a fucking mcdonalds menu#let alone a goddamn piece of media#SURE lets do a 1:1 translation! there will be no loss of context or charm or emotion or flow at all!#why do we even need translators haha just plug it into DeepL!#im sure adaptation of a script for a different market and culture is entirely unnecessary#i mean. how different could they be!el oh el!#i fucking hate it here!!!#if i were a translator i would QUIT because i hate all of these whiny bitches so much#you want literal? ok READ THE ORIGINAL TEXT THEN#OH WHATS THAT? YOU CANT? YOU DONT SPEAK JAPANESE?#HM. BUMMER.
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