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Message: [QUOTE="Moth_Lobster, post: 114959, member: 291685"] awful, a good human translator will always be better. However I do believe there should be more communication between the Japanese team and the team of whoever is localizing the product in this instance. And also, I would like if localizers were allowed to talk about their job. Trying to bring something from one language and culture to another would cause problems no matter how you look at it. If the localizers were allowed to comment on their jobs or provide translators notes and the like, I feel as if public perception would go up. Back in highschool I read a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy and the author of the english version had notes put throughout the story as well as at the end to explain how he chose to do certain things and why. I know fan translators do this regularly, which is why some people give them a pass for when they are more loose. I think official translations should be willing to explain these things, especially if they change terminology between games or need to make drastic changes. Saying something like "This was a reference to an old Japanese folk-tale and due to the meaning being lost on many westerners we changed the line entirely to reference a western folk-tale with similar meaning", or "The Japanese character spoke extremely arrogantly and had a thick accent, so we made them speak with a Boston accent and swear often to try and get the meaning across" would probably solve like 70% of these issues. [/QUOTE]

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