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Message: [QUOTE="Parasite_Steve, post: 96758, member: 5378"] You‘re really not getting my point, are you? If the source material is prose (and let’s call video game text that), a dry and straightforward translation isn’t going to be accurate at all. You lose all the nuance, innuendo and poetry of the original. That goes for every language, doubly so for a language as complex, poetic and vivid as Japanese. Even the most basic grammar a character uses conveys meaning, eg when a woman or girl uses traditionally male or boyish first person pronouns to show that they are tomboyish. Classic manga trope too. If you translate it literally she just says "I" and you’re none the wiser as a gamer. And we’re not even getting into expressions or concepts that are untranslatable. You can solve that conundrum by putting big footnotes in your game or by localizing the text. [/QUOTE]

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