The Gare and Elin Translate It Out: keikaku means plan

[Elin]

Bedtime for me now too. Night night~

[Gare]

Later Elin, crusher!

[Stark]

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

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

[Dr. Ivo Robotnik]

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~

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

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.

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!'

[Gypsy]

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

[Stark]

SLOWLY!

[Ace Ventura]

Okay, the new Borderlands 2 DLC looks awesome.

[Beelzebub]

Get well soon.

Get better soon, Beelzebub!

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.

[brit]

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!

Just according to keikaku.

[Dr. Ivo Robotnik]

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

I'm grateful, of course, but how?

[Nemkoon]

keikaku wa hatarakimasen.

DID I DO THAT RIGHT OTHER THAN BEING ROMANJI?

[Shane]

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

I'm grateful, of course, but how?

People tend to be curious.
Few can resist the urge to ask someone like Dr. Robotnik questions

[Gare]

keikaku wa hatarakimasen.

DID I DO THAT RIGHT OTHER THAN BEING ROMANJI?

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. 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 )

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.

[Gare]

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.

[Dr. Ivo Robotnik]

People tend to be curious.
Few can resist the urge to ask someone like Dr. Robotnik questions

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.