A woman's battle to prove she isn't dead

Re:A woman's battle to prove she isn't dead by Aerroon on Sunday July 04, 2021 @03:41AM (#27727954)

>This provides essentially no benefit because the act of translating into English already removed way more meaning than a few honorifics can keep.

It provides the benefit of teaching the reader about the culture they're reading about. This casual experience you gain by seeing them can help you understand bits and pieces of the language and can make it easier to learn it.

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Re:A woman's battle to prove she isn't dead by astrange on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:39PM (#27753275)

That doesn't work super well because you can't know what's fictional and what isn't unless you already showed up knowing it.

But also, an example of "localization" is that in FFXIV in Japanese the people in the pirate city don't talk like pirates and in English they do. You can't learn anything about Japan from this. (This is part because Japanese doesn't have any pirate stereotypes and part because S-E's Japanese writers aren't actually that good.)

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