John Hokanson Jr. (isamu@USAGI.COM)
Mon, 6 Sep 1999 12:07:36 -0700
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Message-ID: <000001bef89b$14985720$c85b443f@isamu> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 12:07:36 -0700 From: "John Hokanson Jr." <isamu@USAGI.COM> Subject: Re: Compromise of Standards> -----Original Message----- > From: Sakura Taisen Mailing List > [mailto:SAKURATAISEN-LIST@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of Jose > Barragán > Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 9:39 AM > To: SAKURATAISEN-LIST@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: Re: Compromise of Standards > > > > >
> > > >> > >> > >> Uh...this makes no sense to me whatsoever. I don't think anyone > >> who buys WD > >> says that. I think people who buy WD games like their jokes and their > >> translation styles...if you don't, well, there's always the Japanese > >> original. > > > >Terrance is right though. There needs to be a middle ground. > > > >What you describing is two extremes. > > > >Yet another cliche statement by WD fans: "If you don't like the American > >version, learn Japanese." > > > >...except, I don't have the disipline to learn Japanese. So if I'm faced > >with having an Americanized version of a Japanese game, or the original > >Japanese game in Japanese, I think that stinks. Why is it so > wrong to want > >an English language version of a Japanese game without the > Americanization? > > So, basically you're saying "I'm lazy, I don't want to take all > that time to learn Japanese, so all these translation companies > better bend to my will and give me the translations *I* want!!!!" > Nope. I'm saying, it's sad to make somebody learn an entirely new language just to get some artistic integrity. If walk into a Japanese resturaunt in American and order in English, I'd like some food that is reasonably Japanese, and you shouldn't tell me that I'm foolish to be disappointed because I live in America. > > > > >There is nothing wrong. > > > >I wish I had enough money to start my own translation company... > > > You can get a government loan if you really want to start a company badly > enough. It *is* possible. > I think, as with all loans, you need something to put up as collateral. > > > >> I don't even know why you _care_, Terrence, since you're so > >> anti-translation, you only own imports, blah blah blah. > >> > > > >Terrance never said he was anti-translation. > > > Yes, he has. Not on the ML, but on IRC. > Terrance never revealed that to me. He struck me as somebody who is just a purist and would enjoy accurate English translations. As with me. > > > >I hear this a lot from pro-WD people. "If you don't like WD, you're > >anti-translation." What a load of C-R-A-P. > > > AGAIN with your anti-WD schpiel. :P > Nice retort. I hear WD fans utter it. It's BS, just like a number of other strawman arguments they have. - John