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08-30-2010, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by RKitagawa View Post
I'll take your word for it, you're the expert after all. Hard to believe that they would purposefully do a bad translation just to save money. Even some fan-made scanlations do better work than that.

Speaking of unnatural English. One thing that always gets to me is when they leave in the honorifics on everyones name. It just sounds stupid. Ah, I'm getting a little off topic now.
Don't put words in my mouth. I didn't say "bad translation". These can be perfect translations that just aren't complete sentences. The original Japanese may not have been a complete sentence either.

What I am saying is there in no promise that the English that appears in manga translations is grammatically correct. That is not because of a bad translation. That may be a great translation, but not a good study tool.
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