Re: Let's learn some Japanese...BAKA! I love Dir en grey!

From: Kevin Gowen (kgowenNOSPAM_at_myfastmail.com)
Date: 08/06/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 23:05:04 -0400

Travers Naran wrote:

> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>
>> There was also one guy in the Japanese school who was learning Japanese
>> so he could watch anime. Um, hello? Subtitles? He used to enthrall us by
>
>
> Most subtitles in professionally translated anime range from acceptable
> to down right awful. And if this was early 90s, it was during the down
> right awful phase. Its kind of funny to see some of the really bad
> translation mistakes that happened during that time.

It was 1997. I just found it odd, just like I find the otaku of that WSJ
article to be odd. I just don't think cartoons are worth learning a new
language, especially when translated versions exist.

- Kevin

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