User:IDoNotSee



About:

I can be quite the Grammar Nazi sometimes...okay, most of the time.

I majored in English and understand a fair bit of Japanese as my 4th learned language. But due to my busy life, I mostly just point out where other people have gotten their translations wrong--which includes the official English publishers' mistakes (which happens more often than I'd like to see), even if my words falls on deaf ears.

I read a lot of Japanese web novels (since they're free), and buy them only if they don't screw it up after the Light Novel versions are licensed...which isn't often. But when I do buy a (licensed Japanese) novel/manga, I read with a red pen, and make corrections when I see them.

My pet peeves:

- "Localization" which many people mistake for being synonymous with "English licensed translated material". A good example of my hate for localization is calling a rice ball a jelly-filled donut. For all the preaching of being more "diverse" in western societies, there's a whole lot of scrubbing out of other cultures when bringing them overseas...and that includes western adaptions of other media; especially Hollywood movies that loves to take a shit on the original fans. I feel like it's an insult to my intelligence as a consumer with localization--which is only good for the uncultured swine.

- Broken conventions: Usually when official English prints completely ignore a set of linguistic rules/guildlines, like blatantly disregarding the golden standard of using "romanji" when translating Japanese names and places (or their western counterparts) to English, and inconsistencies. An example is any of the the non-Japanese sounding names in the official "In Another World With My Smartphone" series, that have name spellings that looks like they've been written out by an elementary schooler after their teacher told them to "sound it out" and gave them a passing grade with whatever alphabet soup came out of that.

- Typos/misspellings in official prints: I see often enough to warrant my red pen page-marking habit in reading multiple officially licensed Japanese series that I buy, (manga and Light Novels) which most of the time doesn't even  have an editor in the credits!!...Having only the translator, and/or a letterer at best. Not having an editor would explain a lot...but is quite unexceptionable for a product that expects readers to pay good money for. The least they could do is run it through a word processing spellchecker and/or Grammarly--both of which are free.

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