[ SECRET POST #2694 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2694 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[General Hospital]


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[Homestuck, The Other Woman, Pacific Rim, Naruto, X-Men]


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[The Ear, the Eye and the Arm]


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[Warehouse 13]


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[Alton Brown and Anthony Bourdain]


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[YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Magic: the Gathering]


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[Smallville]













Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The sentence structure, for one thing. As an example, here's a sentence from a light novel I have: 血が流れたあとのような赤いラインの入った黒いトレンチコートに身を包み、 静穏航行中の小型ボートの突端に立つその横顔は、とても十七歳とは思えない陰を帯びている。 Makes sense in Japanese, but try to translate it literally in English and you have a mess. You've got to rewrite the entire sentence to make it sound natural in English.

[(Anonymous)]

how's that different from regular books? try reading murakami ryu. it's simply a fact that you have to rewrite entire sentences when you translate japanese to [indo european language here]. the problem is, not that many translators are as versed in their mother tongue as the author is in theirs.many people ask me, if my japanese needs to be really good for good translations, but actually, you don't need that much active japaese. Just enough *passive* understanding to really get what a sentence means. What you do need, though, are *very* good writing skills in your own language.
one of the most acclaimed recent translators from japanese to my language really speaks an awful japanese. (she also misreads, sometimes, but you don't realize that until you compare the translated text to the original.) But the novels she translates read really well.