Thread:Koayyy/@comment-24810872-20140607170547/@comment-6218208-20140608050045

Yeah, that's a huge mistake people make very often when it comes to translating anything. I'm pretty used to it by now since I've been translating for my parents for as long as I can remember, but there's so many things that you have to do when it comes to translation that most people don't realize at first. One of the biggest things being that some things are just not possible to translate into another language without it sounding awkward (thus why many things can and most likely will get lost in translation).

An example of that in Buddyfight is the joke that occured in episode four regarding Gao and Misaki from Cardfight Vanguard. The term/title "bancho" does not have a clear-cut definition in English, so many people who don't understand what was going on were completely clueless when Naoki and company were all pointing at Misaki. Another is Gao and Suzuha's conversation after their fight. I don't know what was said exactly in the dub, but according to my friend who watched it, she was apparently flirting with Gao. However, in the original Japanese version, the word that Gao used, "tsukiao" can mean a variety of things ranging from sparring, hanging out as friends, or go on a date, which is what Suzuha misunderstood and thought Gao was coming on to her.

With things like that, it often comes to the translator's discretion about how literal (giving the actual meaning of the words being said) and how liberal (tweeking the dialogue so that it makes more sense in the language you're translating into while preserving as much of the intended meaning as possible) to make the translation.

Wow....I inadvertedly ended up ranting way more than I intended to there... (^_^;;)