Re:Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese
by xii22 on Monday November 11, 2019 @02:00AM
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On your Portal point, the reason for that is that sarcasm as humor is not really a 'thing' in Japan, in general terms. Some people go as far as saying that the Japanese do not understand sarcasm, but that's an exaggeration
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Re:Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese
by fiblye on Monday November 11, 2019 @07:11AM
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Yeah, it’s generally just regarded as mean.
On the contrary, I’ve found it’s something that most other Asian countries get really well, so the difficulty seems to mostly be limited to Japan.