The Gare and Elin Translate It Out: keikaku means plan

Bedtime for me now too. ^_^ Night night~

Later Elin, crusher!

lol who watches anime nowadays............

Edit: can't really say that as I have a convention to go to in 3 months time :wacko:

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Oh, interesting. ^^;;; Those are all miles outside of my field of study, but Greek has always been interesting to me due to my having a few very close Greek friends~

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Heh, everyone has a language group they're passionate about, I suppose. My primary expertise definitely resides with English, Dutch being my mother tongue.

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Also, while I don't get annoyed with literal translations as a whole, the fansubbing community often takes it to ridiculous, nonsensical extremes. My editor actually wanted to change "Tokyo" to "Toukyou" on one project we were working on, and didn't relent until I threatened to resign over it, after which he basically implied that I was stupid for... you know... wanting to translate a city name in an English translation into its accepted English spelling. :'D Madness.

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That always annoys me about watching fansubs. Sometimes there are translations where I barely have any idea what they mean, and it turns out another guy translated it more loosely and I suddenly went 'it all makes sense now!'

Got a free oversized advertisement box for ZoE HD Collection. <3

SLOWLY!

Okay, the new Borderlands 2 DLC looks awesome. :lol

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Get well soon. :x

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Originally Posted by Shane

Get better soon, Beelzebub!

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Thanks you two. :)

Well thankfully I found somebody to cover the rest of my shift. Now to eat something and lay in bed and play my Vita for the rest of the day.

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Originally Posted by crusher

Hi guys, interesting topic! Literal translations or whatever I should call them are the worst. I'm not the biggest fan of anime and mangas but I've watched/read fantranslated stuff every now and then. "Oni-chan" and "Translators note: Keikaku means plan" makes my blood boil. Translate probably instead of mixing words and having the end-user require a fucking dictionary!

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Just according to keikaku.

:wacko:

...Ask Dr. Robotnik is on 115 pages. How on earth is that thing still going?

I'm grateful, of course, but how? :P

keikaku wa hatarakimasen.

DID I DO THAT RIGHT OTHER THAN BEING ROMANJI? :wacko:

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...Ask Dr. Robotnik is on 115 pages. How on earth is that thing still going?

I'm grateful, of course, but how? :P

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People tend to be curious. :P
Few can resist the urge to ask someone like Dr. Robotnik questions http://r23.imgfast.net/users/2317/43...1235519876.png

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keikaku wa hatarakimasen.

DID I DO THAT RIGHT OTHER THAN BEING ROMANJI? :wacko:

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If you mean "the plan doesn't work/isn't working" or something along those lines... then no, I never really heard it expressed like that. :wacko: Hataraku is work in the sense of doing labor / working at your job.

If it was me I'd say 計画は失敗した (keikaku wa shippaishita - the plan failed), or 計画は成功しなかった　(seikoushinakatta - didn't succeed), or 計画は効かない　(keikaku wa kikanai - the plan isn't being effective/shows no effect/isn't working out), or a new expression I learned recently, 計画は効を奏しない　(kou wo soushinai - the plan didn't bear fruit, sounds like a fancy expression to me and I haven't really heard it before :wacko: )

Although I'd take 効かない with a grain of salt. It's often used for military tactics (作戦は効かない), but for keikaku... eh, I dunno.

See I even included romaji just for you. It's a bloody pain in the ass but you can't say I'm not being considerate. :wacko:

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People tend to be curious. :P
Few can resist the urge to ask someone like Dr. Robotnik questions http://r23.imgfast.net/users/2317/43...1235519876.png

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Apparently so. Oh well, I'm hardly complaining. As I've frequently mentioned before, I'd expected it to reach 5-10 pages and then peter out. :P

:wav:

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See I even included romaji just for you. It's a bloody pain in the ass but you can't say I'm not being considerate. :wacko:

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Thank you.
I'm just lazy in finding places to type in the actually hiragana/katakana/kanji, also because I prefer looking at English letterz when possible :wacko:

So......Touhou.

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Originally Posted by Gare

If you mean "the plan doesn't work/isn't working" or something along those lines... then no, I never really heard it expressed like that. :wacko: Hataraku is work in the sense of doing labor / working at your job.

If it was me I'd say 計画は失敗した (keikaku wa shippaishita - the plan failed), or 計画は成功しなかった　(seikoushinakatta - didn't succeed), or 計画は効かない　(keikaku wa kikanai - the plan isn't being effective/shows no effect/isn't working out), or a new expression I learned recently, 計画は効を奏しない　(kou wo soushinai - the plan didn't bear fruit, sounds like a fancy expression to me and I haven't really heard it before :wacko: )

Although I'd take 効かない with a grain of salt. It's often used for military tactics (作戦は効かない), but for keikaku... eh, I dunno.

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Thank you the Japanese Teacher that I use when I randomly look up words and put them in sentences :wacko:

Nemmmmmmmmmerrrrrrrrrrrrr

Gypnii-san. :wacko:

Playing through Uncharteds again. Got the first one today on junk credit. :)

Hello all

So I have to give a demonstrative speech for my public speaking class which has to take 6 minutes. I would demonstrate how to take something to a vote and see if the majority of my class mates glasses in life half full or half empty I was going to come in with a glass of water and act like its my drinking water take a couple gulps and then get into my speech. Teacher like it what do you all think?

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Thank you.
I'm just lazy in finding places to type in the actually hiragana/katakana/kanji, also because I prefer looking at English letterz when possible :wacko:

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Having your eyes get used to kana is important in the long run. But at this point I'm not sure if you're actually serious about learning the language or if you're just lightly dabbling in it for the lulz. :wacko:

Also if you want to type in Japanese the same way you type in English, you have to use Microsoft IME.

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lol who watches anime nowadays............

Edit: can't really say that as I have a convention to go to in 3 months time :wacko:

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I still go to cons, a few cons I've gone to had pub quizzes and I had the most fun at those. :wacko:

Sigh. How was everyone's weekend?

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Sigh. How was everyone's weekend?

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Eh? It's Wednesday.

Yep, get with the times. :wacko:

I cycled 20 miles, that was the most interesting part of my weekend I guess.

Um.it's Tuesday here. I was referring to Memorial day weekend.and oh,fuck it. Never mind. 20 miles? Was the scenery nice?

Yeah, it was alright, the trip there was dull though.

Yeah, most of them are.

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Um.it's Tuesday here. I was referring to Memorial day weekend.and oh,fuck it. Never mind. 20 miles? Was the scenery nice?

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Well that isn't for the whole world.
But thanks for the info.

Might explain why some tv shows I've been watching seem to be unavailable for download >.>
FU America.

Sorry.

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Sorry.

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That's not good enough :ignore:


Gimme my tv shows now :wacko:

Ok.Sorry that I'm American and somehow kept your shows from you.:wacko:

American TV shows are overrated, stopped watching garbage TV ages ago :wacko:

I don't watch a lot of tv these days either.

Games and Anime Merry, Games and Anime :nod:

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American TV shows are overrated, stopped watching garbage TV ages ago :wacko:

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I don't watch tv.
I just download shit, and it's mostly of the sci-fi variety.

I haven't got much of a backlog of movies to watch atm, and I've nearly finished watching all of Eureka (just one more season).