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[MTBB] Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! – Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! - 03 (BD 1080p)
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Description
Asakusa talks weird in this show. Not only that, but her strange way of speaking is mentioned in the dialogue at some point, so it's important to get it across in the English script. But making someone "talk weird" in a translation is often a one-way ticket to cringeville. After all, the task for the translation team is basically "take this line of dialogue and make it funny/quirky," but buddy, if I could write funny/interesting/quirky dialogue for any arbitrary line, I'd go become a writer. It's sorta like puns in translation—it's one thing to come up with a pun and quite another to come up with a pun on demand, which is why translated puns in anime are often hit-or-miss.
Luckily, we didn't have to translate every single instance of Asakusa's weird speech. We just needed to do it enough to get the point across. And we basically had complete freedom over how to make her talk weird, since her ways of talking are varied—like a professor; like a hick; like an American. So we could just translate the quirkiness for lines that we had a good idea for.
All of this is pretty straightforward/uncontroversial. But let's take it a step further. Is it okay to insert quirky dialogue into an Asakusa line that wasn't quirky in the original, with the justification that we're making up for all the lines we didn't translate? I did this, though I had my misgivings about it. (The "Take the high ground!" line in 01 is an example.) It seemed like the best way to do justice to the author's depiction of Asakusa. Again, the reason why we didn't map the quirkiness 1-to-1 is that that would lead to a lot of cringe/distracting lines due to "forcing" it.
Comments 16
just make her constantly say memes imo
director's commentary edition
It's cringe to some people and funny to others. There's no way to satisfy everyone since humor is subjective. I'd probably, unironically, use memes as herkz suggested because that's what would make it sound funny to me.
Yes. Next question.
O_o
This sort of thing does often tickle my autism the wrong way whenever I catch it, but it's good to at least hear the reasoning behind why it happens.
meme speak is the way
I mean
big thankies from mcspankies bobby
yeah ignoring context and timing is a great thing for any translator to do.
Yes, just tell anyone who doesn't like it to suck your dick. Problem solved.
But he talks about context at length, in fact, that's the whole reason the question is even posed in the first place. You'd think if he was rhetorically suggesting that it's okay for any translator to do, he wouldn't have said this:
Which implies an understanding of both the language and the context, and therefore the knowledge to implement it with. What am I missing here...?
Govna is a silly goose, which is newspeech for "closet homosexual" and wants to get fucked in the arse by Bobby B. That's why he's always poking fun at him, all the time.
Ah, I see. Learning something new on the internet every day. In my opinion, being an open homosexual on the internet is pretty rad, so I would recommend that over being closeted. It's 2022 after all!
Thanks!
motbob's a failure of a fansubber, that's why he always makes page long blog posts about doing normal things that everyone already does. By pointing out he's doing something that would have normally been assumed you know he did a bad job at it and is trying to preempt criticism.
Cool!