Re: Translation Preferences

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

Leave it

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

Do not translate

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

Leave them

> 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!"

Leave them?

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