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I don't like to make fun of translating issues.
I mean, they try their best.
How many westerners try to translate to Japanese?
Here in Holland even our own people get our own language wrong
"rievierkreeftjes" Only Dutch will understand this one.
Well anyway this one I just had to share. Even Japanese can enjoy this one I think. If I offend anyone with this one I do appologize. Thank the Japanese for translating so much even when they don't have to!
And shame on those who complain when a game is not fully in English.
Engrish
My favorite engrish is in the Samurai Shodown games. The intro to 2 is priceless and the win screen from 4....
VICTOLY!!!!
Dimahoo's is pretty amazing though.
VICTOLY!!!!
Dimahoo's is pretty amazing though.
Feedback will set you free.
captpain wrote:Basically, the reason people don't like Bakraid is because they are fat and dumb
That's great but Engrish is still funny. It's not funny because someone "tried their best" and failed. It's funny because of how little effort was put into making a translation. It speaks of a small budget or someone who just didn't care. After all most Japanese companies are fully capable of hiring a translator but some don't and instead opt for the member of the programming team who learned english off a few care bears episodes and a really old battered Japanese-English dictionary.
Most Engrish is entirely preventable so no I don't feel bad laughing at someone's lack of effort. It's like laughing at a 5th grader's book report when it is obvious he didn't read the damn book.
Most Engrish is entirely preventable so no I don't feel bad laughing at someone's lack of effort. It's like laughing at a 5th grader's book report when it is obvious he didn't read the damn book.
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You just can't help laughing when you see Dew Dew candy.
(I actually have a bag of this at home)
Over there, it's hip to have English on your packaging or clothing, kind of how having kanji tattoos or kanji printed on your clothing is hip over here. They try to make it logical, they really do. But English is such a screwed up language that they can make a sentence that is strucuturally 100% correct, but makes absolutely zero sense.
(I actually have a bag of this at home)
Over there, it's hip to have English on your packaging or clothing, kind of how having kanji tattoos or kanji printed on your clothing is hip over here. They try to make it logical, they really do. But English is such a screwed up language that they can make a sentence that is strucuturally 100% correct, but makes absolutely zero sense.
Usually, a proposition like " Green ideas sleep furiously" is senseless regardless of the language (and its syntax). Usually in the sense that, well, it may casually be that in some language could be a proverb (i.e.a non-literal meaning).extrarice wrote:You just can't help laughing when you see Dew Dew candy.
(I actually have a bag of this at home)
Over there, it's hip to have English on your packaging or clothing, kind of how having kanji tattoos or kanji printed on your clothing is hip over here. They try to make it logical, they really do. But English is such a screwed up language that they can make a sentence that is strucuturally 100% correct, but makes absolutely zero sense.
"The only desire the Culture could not satisfy from within itself was one common to both the descendants of its original human stock and the machines [...]: the urge not to feel useless."
I.M. Banks, "Consider Phlebas" (1988: 43).
I.M. Banks, "Consider Phlebas" (1988: 43).
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Reminds me of how a chinese co-worker of a friend of mine suddenly burst into laughter at the sight of a guy on the other side of the street, who had kanji printed on his t-shirt. We asked her what was supposed to be so funny and she answered: "See that guy over there? He's got 'Don't park your bike here!' written on his chest."extrarice wrote:Over there, it's hip to have English on your packaging or clothing, kind of how having kanji tattoos or kanji printed on your clothing is hip over here.
A mate of mine had a necklace with some kanji on it. His buddy asked him what it meant, and he said it meant 'Tiger'...
Unfortunately for him, a Japanese person was also nearby and said 'no it doesn't, it means water'!
We gave him quite a bit of stick for that...
Unfortunately for him, a Japanese person was also nearby and said 'no it doesn't, it means water'!
We gave him quite a bit of stick for that...
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"If she makes it, she should be a perfectly normal and healthy cat. Other than having two faces."
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