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submitted 4 days ago by hmmm@sh.itjust.works to c/animemes@ani.social

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[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Or are using machine translation. Some translations even get translated from other, non-Japanese versions to English so you even further lose some of the og.

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 1 points 3 days 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.

[–] Unboxious@ani.social 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 1 points 4 days 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