[ SECRET POST #2320 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2320 ⌋

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

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08. [SPOILERS for Iron Man 3]



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09. [SPOILERS for Fire Emblem: Awakening]



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11. [WARNING for rape and abuse]



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12. [SPOILERS for The Borgias]
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13. [WARNING for suicide]

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Just don't. Unless you have a very good reason for it or your character a get off on character b speaking French (Morticia/Gomez Adams, anyone?). I despise it when one character just starts speaking another language for what basically amounts to no reason. For ex. like in anime fics and Japanese.

The authors will have the characters speak every so often in Japanese for no reason other than to "demonstrate" their knowledge of fangirl Japanese, really, but they say it's b/c the characters are speaking Japanese and they want to include it. If you want to include the honorifics, fine. If the setting is Japan and the characters are Japanese, you don't need to throw in Japanese. Your audience is capable of figuring out that they're speaking Japanese in Japan since they are born and raised Japanese. Throwing sentences in sentences written in Japanese is distracting since it makes me realize/think that these characters are, for some damn reason I don't know, speaking English and reverting to Japanese for some also unknown reason.

Now, if you have French character in this Japanese setting and have him want to speak a sentence in French that's okay since he's not Japanese it's not destroying the setting the way the Japanese sentences are. Also, stop with the * next to the foreign language sentence to indicate an English translation at the end. If you've ever read a professionally published book, hopefully you've noticed those authors don't do it. What they do do, is use the next sentence(s) to translate it b/c the other characters understand it or guessed the meaning of it.

Like: "Hola, mi nombre is Juan." "Hello, Juan, nice to meet you." See how that implies he just said his name is Juan? Like that.

[(Anonymous)]

The authors will have the characters speak every so often in Japanese for no reason other than to "demonstrate" their knowledge of fangirl Japanese, really, but they say it's b/c the characters are speaking Japanese and they want to include it.

As someone who is actually a professional Japanese translator? Don't do this. There is no good reason not to translate something, unless it is one of the rare cases where there is literally no equivalent in English. In that case, it's usually left untranslated with a translator's note below, but that is VERY rare. Most words and phrases can be translated into English just fine without any significant loss of meaning.