I'm sorry, but apparently the English language decided that underage birds were exactly the kind of thing that would favorably compare to attractive women.Originally Posted by Strife212
I'm sorry, but apparently the English language decided that underage birds were exactly the kind of thing that would favorably compare to attractive women.
Snog is so much of a better word than mack or any such thing, at least. Now Australia would be great for translating weirdness. Going off like a frog in a sock would probably raise some eyebrows in other languages, I suspect.
That'd be stupid, since by less a metaphor I mean it means exactly penis and vagina, even if it does have other meanings. So the translation would be wrong, like google translate wrong.
Same with chick with reference to a girl. If you translate such a use as baby chicken, you're a terribad translator.
Its exactly the same. Seafood metaphors mean nothing without the japanese cultural attachments, just like english speaking metaphors and slang for sex. All I was trying to do was show that.
Nope, because in English you can actually craft actual metaphors that would not translate directly as penis and vagina or what have you, and be actual metaphors.
I'm saying, those specific terms for penis and vagina have transcended beyond euphemisms and metaphors to actually be/mean what they might have, maybe, at one point, been euphemisms and metaphors to.
Agreed but that doesn't really diminish my point. A cock and a pussy would still look weird from another perspective, we are just so used to that we don't see it that way, its probably the same for the Japanese and seafood metaphors. Aka seafood metaphors are not a sign that Nasu was super virgin number 1, who had no idea what to do when writing sex(though I think he still had no idea what he was doing but thats more pacing) or that the Japanese are fucked when it comes to sex.
Yeah, a perspective in which you don't know what that word means.A cock and a pussy would still look weird from another perspective
Like say, how perspective would still look weird from another perspective, because you don't know what perspective mean.
I'm saying, I understand that seafood is metaphor, but cock and pussy ain't, don't use them as. Use an actual metaphor.
Like a giant writhing hissing python.
Someone get a moonspeaker to confirm if the seafood metaphors are actually metaphors or just mistranslation
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I'm a little late but I heard the previous translator abandoned the project and someone new picked it up. Can someone confirm?
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People still call their sexual partners "baby".
That alone weirds me out more than any animal- or seafood-related metaphors.
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Extrapolation places ETA in June 2013, which indicates a slowdown in the translation rate.
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So slow it goes backwards in time?
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