Shrinking Violet - Why you shouldn't use babelfish for your book

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So first of all let me say that I didn't like this book. At all. It was predictable and the plot was very weak. Since I always say the first sentence has to pull you in and try to do that in my story here's the first sentence: You're listening to Sweet T on 92.7 WEMD SLAM FM. These little quotes from the radio are in every chapter the real chapter

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I HAVE NOTICED THE BAD GERMAN TOO.
and not just in books, but in mangas, too.
Mangas especially; I swear the Japanese have some sort of obsession with Germany and being German…probably 80% of the mangas I have read have at least one character who moves to Germany/speaks German/is from German decent/etc.
and most of the German is wrong. >___>
Maybe we should get jobs properly translating the German in books~?

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I think if the author's tried more they could find a friend who knows german or has a friend who knows german.

I know what you mean. I have only seen german in Fruits Basket but I heard from a friend in the german dub of a Detective Conan movie they dubbed someone that spoke german in the japanese version in a german accent and then let someone translate it. XD Like they need to translate the accent to flawless german.
Any other Animes/Manga you know with german?

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god, so many. I can't even remember the titles.
I know Whistle! has someone of German decent who moves to Germany; then I read another one which takes place in Germany; and I find a lot of ~artistic guys in mangas speak a bit of German.
oh, and then there's this gem:

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lmao that's priceless.

I think that one Manhawa Ritter Der Königin (don't know the english/japanese name) takes place somwhere in Germany but I don't midn the setting as long as not everybody speakes wrong german there.

But then there are series like Weiss Kreuz and characters with names that are supposed to sound german...

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It's okay when it's accurate though when it's just used to seem, interesting it's still weird. Like I read all this random german that people put in there for no reason. Why not have random spanish, chinese, italian etc. characters?

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What about that episode where they had a youth hotel or something for germans? XD