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Message: [QUOTE="Parasite_Steve, post: 7203, member: 5378"] Oh wow, some heated discussions here. As someone who actually speaks multiple languages, including Japanese, literal translations are absolutely useless in conveying the flavor of the original text. Especially with a language as colorful as Japanese. A very common example being first-person pronouns of which there are several, each conveying different things, bei it social status, gender identity, age, even your hometown (kansaiben ftw) etc. All of them would just translate to "I" basically if you're doing an "accurate" ie literal translation. Hence AI translations are a handy tool to speed up a professional translator's work at best. Software at this point is barely able to translate a Japanese food menu correctly, let alone prose. It should never be the final product. Furthermore if you believe a pure software translation would be free of political bias or "ideology" (a word that is now hollow beyond imagination) you betray a naive lack of understanding in how these algorithms are fed and by whom. [/QUOTE]

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