Thanks to sports manga series, when I saw the phrase "Tohoku area" (in English) in a document, my first instinct was to translate it as "Team Tohoku ( Read more... )

novel_in_90, where you get your daily dose of snazzy quotes.

"Writing only leads to more writing." --Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

but we must remember that:

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." --E.L. Doctorow

I'm reading the Indonesian translation of The Half-Blood Prince, just to see how it's translated. Ms. L - who happens to be my ( Read more... )

Dear Kishimoto,
May I facepalm now since you've succumbed to the Inevitable Shounen Action Series Credo?

Dear TeniPuri,
Why is it so hard to write serious fics for you?
Dear TeniPuri fandom,
It's Momoshiro Takeshi and Kawamura Takashi. Those two are not interchangeable ( Read more... )

Basic account users can still switch between custom moodthemes, as long as the moodthemes have been installed before they go basic. Yay.

Anyway. Anyway. The real reason for this entry. access_identity texted me that today she met the translator for TeniPuri in Indonesia. She asked him why the translation resembles that of a kungfu series. He said, well, it is a ( Read more... )

So I've moved my blog here, which means I will post fewer entries but there will be just as much fangirling.

I completely forgot where I found this, but I thought it's worth noting down.

In Chinese, the translator's credo is 信達雅, xin-da-ya, which translates something like this ( Read more... )