English is not my first language, either …
Though it’s not like I’m putting in the work to translate anything myself, so IDK if I should complain that much.
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Unboxious@ani.social 3 weeks agoI assume those are mostly done by people for whom English is not their first language.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Or are using machine translation. Some translations even get translated from other, none Japanese versions to English so you even further lose some of the og.
Unboxious@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I assume that if a native English speaker used machine translation to translate something to English and it sounded unnatural they’d correct it, but who knows.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Google translate can often get things extremely wrong without seeming unnatural (this happens more with minor languages)
For example, a Scottish Gaelic vulgar term that roughly translates as “fuck you” means “you’re welcome” according to Google translate
raman_klogius@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Reliving the Bible experience with each new chapter.
context
The Bible is famously a translation of a translation of a translation, with a lot of scribal commentary and interpretation becoming word of god in the process.