🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧

If you're stupid, I laugh at you. It's really that simple.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

*shows manga panel with perfectly fine conversational English* IS THIS THE FUTURE YOU WANT?!

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@FNbunchonumbers @AndyKavna The people who understand the translated slang know thatbit doesn't fit. The tone is horribly wrong.

At that point, you're better off just leaving the japanese text as is. If it's gibberish anyway, at least the reader won't feel alien in their own language.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

When people say "just translate the words", they mean that translators should dress down the meaning of the idiom into a form they can understand, not into unintelligible garbage like "skibiddi" and "6-7".

[Andy. @AndyKavna]

To "just translate the words" does a huge disservice to the writer who worked hard and chose their words, phrasing, sentence structure etc carefully. If you actually respect creators, you should want translators to avoid literally translations like the plague.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

Canada is also horrible. We're racist, just like you said.

They should go back to India, where there is no racism against Indians. ❤️

[Cloudy @Cloudlily5]

@AdamJ33610704 And go back to India where life sucks? Have some empathy

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@FNbunchonumbers @AndyKavna Let me ask you.

If your goal is for the reader to understand a Japanese text in English, why would you include language that most english speakers don't "get"? Now the reader has to look up what "skibiddi" means on top of the source material. There are better ways to do this.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@TheMysteriousGX You like garbage, I like food.

Nothing wrong with admitting that.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@TheMysteriousGX She's cringe in japanese because she uses outdated gyaru mannerisms and lingo.

She's cringe in our language for using modern memes that are only consumed by brainrotted, internet-poisoned youth.

They are not even close to being similar.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@Menrva_Scarlet It's an example of intent getting steamrolled by the execution. Nobody cares about intent if the execution is blatantly wrong.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@TheMysteriousGX Yeah, I know it's a gyaru that makes up words. I know.

Saying that "the internet exists in that universe" is a copout and the idiot's way of accepting bad changes because "anything can happen".

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@TheMysteriousGX @aro_arox Yeah, I'm sure the Umamusume horse girl knows what skibiddi toilet and 67 come from.

Grow some critical thinking.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@TheMysteriousGX @aro_arox If you want to consume slop, just say so.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@Menrva_Scarlet Again, the intent doesn't matter if the execution is poor.

I could replace "Itadakimasu" with "rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub" with the intent to give thanks for the food, but the tone is so wildly different that the intent is no longer what I'm worried about as a reader.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@FNbunchonumbers @AndyKavna It's not serviceable at all. Gyaru lingo and zoomer lingo are so incredibly different in tone. One denotes an energetic, cheerful dialogue, whereas the other denotes a kid that has been raised by an iPad. It's a complete tonal shift.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@TheMysteriousGX @aro_arox That's an enormous difference, as it matters who says it.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@FNbunchonumbers @AndyKavna I think poor localizations shouldn't exist in major publications such as Umamusume.

You can argue that it's rare, but a lot of eyes are on this title, making the translation more important than ever.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@Menrva_Scarlet The intent is lost in poor translation. "Skibidi" does not have a use, as its use case is so specific that you can't just cram it into a context where it doesn't belong, even if it's replacing gibberish.

It's a case where a word defines the speaker, rather than itself.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@aro_arox The irony is that brainrot like "skibiddi" isn't literally nonsense, it's just a deep-fried meme that only the most retarded kids use.

It defines whoever says it, even if it doesn't have a definition itself.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@DapperParagon Oh, I agree with you, don't worry.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@DapperParagon It's either a case of them vagueposting about something specific they saw...or they're backpedalling.

I'm willing to be charitable and say it's the former, but it has nothing to do with the current localization argument either way.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@Moniker1221 It's not OUR unintelligible brainrot grabage. Even brainrot has different connotations in different languages.

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

@AndyKavna Perhaps you chose the wrong time to talk about it, since the current talk of the town is Umamusume's horrendous localization. People will believe you are speaking in reference to that.

If you weren't, your timing couldn't have been worse lol

[🟧Smug Orange Cube🟧 @SmugCube]

Yunayu got chased off of bluesky for posting Malfoid art because JK Rowling lives rent free in their heads.

When she posted it here, she got nothing but love and support and was thankful for the praise.

Perhaps you have been lied to. 🤔

[Amandahub @TheRealAmanda20]

Galfoy is full of genuine whimsical hopefulness

Malfoid is Full of hate and malice,

Remember the difference the two