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jeffcobb · 10-10-2010, 05:22 PM

While I cannot speak to book translations, we watch a lot of anime here at Casa Cobb and sometimes part of that is characters singing a song of some type...while the original Japanese version is probably very good, the English version is stilted, awkward and sometimes downright confusing/funny/bizarre.

Thus I can see where reading something in the authors' original language results in a better read than reading a translation...

10-10-2010, 05:22 PM	#112
jeffcobb Groupie Posts: 152 Karma: 700 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Las Vegas Device: Nook, CoolER	While I cannot speak to book translations, we watch a lot of anime here at Casa Cobb and sometimes part of that is characters singing a song of some type...while the original Japanese version is probably very good, the English version is stilted, awkward and sometimes downright confusing/funny/bizarre. Thus I can see where reading something in the authors' original language results in a better read than reading a translation...