How many creative liberties should translators take?

How many creative liberties should translators take?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    None

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's absolutely essential they dechudify all text.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    As much as the original writers give them

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      what if they're dead or it's unoffical?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    they are at liberty to not learn the language they are translating from and instead make it all up on the spot (it is being culturally translated)

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I saw the rosetta stone in person, it's alright I guess.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >what if we just...steal other nations artifacts and culture
    Why are they like this?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >noo we were going to translate it we just never got around in the past 1300 years

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      arab peasant were breaking pieces off of that thing to build their huts and it was sitting in a trash pile when europeans found it

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        In fairness that was what happened to all old roman artefacts in Europe too. People would find ancient roman gold and melt it down and destroy neolithic monuments for walls.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          yeah cool story bro, meanwhile muslims are blowing up ancient roman ruins and buddhist cliff carvings because their volcano god doesnt like it at this very moment

          the pyramids will probably get nuked by some towelhead in the next 100 years

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >muslims are blowing up ancient roman ruins and buddhist cliff carvings
            So like Europeans did after the reformation.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >b-b-but muh white man bad
              If not for europeans every single piece of goatfricker, sliteyed ad rubberlip Black person history in the last thousand years would be gone forever.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >b-b-but muh white man bad
                Black person you literally started posting about arabs in a reply, stop obsessing about sandBlack person wieners

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              That's why there's no cathedrals or any art from that time period. All blowed up just like taliban

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Do you even know the context behind? You do realize these "cultures" didn't give a shit and the only reason the artifacts were found, preserved and given the value and recognition they deserve thanks to european autism? You are aware that if the autochtones had found them they would have been destroyed forever, right?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ownership only exists to the extent that it is enforced, untermensch

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Museums are a means to experience cultures without having to go across the planet or use a time machine.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The real question is why did it take a bunch of Europeans to dig this stuff up, study their cultures, translate their languages, etc?

      Nobody in Egypt gave a single frick about those giant pyramids and those weird picture languages until Europeans came and studied them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Check out the male statues in the Greek section and you might understand

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They should take out all the israeliness

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Translators should be hanged, if you want to read in another language you should have to learn it rather than letting someone hand you a version of it raped into unrecognizability

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >hey bro what does "espanol es bona" mean
      >oh spanish is good
      >sir, you just translated something hence mutilation so must die

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yes

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know, but I know liberties that shouldn't be taken, such as historical revisionism in a game that's meant to be accurate, or revisionism purely for the sake of "diversity and inclusion", but I guess this is obvious.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    As much as it takes to maintain the prose style/verse metre. Dante used Terza Rima in his Comedy, the translator should try to emulate that
    Video game prose/dialogue is usually simple and there's little reason to take creative liberties beyond having a politics brainrot

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It should only be localized if it cannot be parsed in another language.

    This is broader than it sounds; translating one joke to another similar one, or a congruent turn of phrase is appropriate.

    The thing that should be avoided is "good ideas", because there has never been value added by an individual translator deciding a meme, joke or bit should be inserted into their translation.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    minimal
    they aren't devs, they don't get to change anything

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