[ SECRET POST #1930 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1930 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 110 secrets from Secret Submission Post #276.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[loracarol.livejournal.com]

I don't mind fanwork, and I think that it can be posted. But, at the same time, I wish people (including younger me) would have taken the time to edit, format, etc. instead of just posting it because. :/

IDK, maybe I'm being overly sensitive, but I literally just read a fic before the F!S post went up that had "hai" being used instead of "yes", and I was left going O_________o. You're typing in English, aren't you? The story is in English, isn't it? Yes.

[(Anonymous)]

I had random-japanese-word as much as the next girl, but I do feel like there is occasionally a reason for it too. Fruits Basket is a fantastic example where the suffixes are a major part of the relationships, and it would be very difficult to replicate that without using Japanese here and there.

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SA

Obviously "Hai" is an awful example of that.

[loracarol.livejournal.com]

TBH, I don't mind honorifics as much, though I do think they're annoying when they are used too much in a fic when an English equivalent would work just as well. ( Sesshomaru Sama -vs- Lord Sesshomaru, for example.) Like, -chan, I don't mind.

Hai hai, or Occha instead of tea just bug the hell out of me. |D

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah, I was more saying there are places for random Japanese words, but "yes" or "tea" work better in English. However, I'm not a Japanese scholar (by any stretch of the imagination), but I'm sure there are words (besides honorifics) where the meaning is lost in translation, or there simply isn't a good translation. Deja vu is a great example although French in origin. There isn't a good 'native' English word that can take its place so you might have to use Deja vu and put a footnote describing it.

[loracarol.livejournal.com]

I agree, when there are words that just don't work, then they should stay in Japanese. But, yeah, when simple words aren't translated I can't see the fic as anything but shite. :/

[otakugal15.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the -sama thing. I've been to used to watching anime in subs that that's stuck with me. Even if it's written as "Lord Sesshoumaru," I still end up mentally reading "Sesshoumaru-sama." :P

However, random Japanese words like "shiro" for castle bug the ever living shit out of me.

I'm currently reading a Sesshoumaru/Kagome WIP (i like them ok? >_> i still read fic for them from time to time even if i haven't touched inuyasha since high school)) and the author, as amazing a writer as she is, uses "shiro" in place of castle. It's always clunky sounding and throws me every time I see it. I've been mentally blocking it and using castle in its place when I come across it.

[loracarol.livejournal.com]

I think if I saw the word "shiro" in use over and over I'd be confused as hell because to me shiro = (color) white, and I'd be confused the whole time... ^^;

[otakugal15.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. It depends on the inflection of the word. One way, shi-RO, is castle. SHI-ro is white. I think I have that right. It's been so long and my basic Japanese is so rusty. ^^;;;

It's like Sake and Sake. One is the rice wine and the other means salmon. :3

[loracarol.livejournal.com]

It's been a long time since I took Japanese as well... Though I don' think he ever actually learned the word for castle. Hm.

[fanficcleanup.livejournal.com]

I hate the non English authors, too. They should write in English or not bother posting at all.

[loracarol.livejournal.com]

I don't mind of fanfic writers write in their native language, but yeah, when random Japanese words are thrown in randomly to be ~cool~ I have issues with it.

[fanficcleanup.livejournal.com]

I hate it because you have to translate it, and I think that fanfiction.net should be an English language only website and that foreign authors shouldn't be allowed to post here, or post on fanfiction sites in their native tongue so they don't pollute the site with their non English stories.

[loracarol.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I just think you're trolling.

I mean, there's a difference between people writing it in a non-English language, and people writing stuff like

"Occha!" the tsugoi kawaii girl's boss called to her.

"Hai hai" she replied, hurrying to take occha (tea) to her boss, mumbling "baka" under her breath..."