Re: Translation Preferences

"Hand-of-Omega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> If you were translating anime for Western distribution, would you:
>
> 1) Change the characters' names or leave them as is?

Most likely leave them as is.

>
> 2) Translate honorifics, prefixes and suffixes or leave them as is?
>

Depends a lot on the show.  A classic samurai drama, for example - I can see
leaving in some of the prefixes/suffixes.  A high school comedy though, no.

> 3) Change topical references to Western ones or leave them as is?
>

Again, it would depend on situation, but probably I would lean more towards
"translating" the spirit of the joke, by putting in a western version of the
joke.

> 4) Leave some Japanese exclamations/phrases that don't really
> translate or change them into some kind of English equivalent? e.g.
> "Oh!" for "Ah!"

Yes, definitely.

Fata Morgana
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