https://archive.is/hh0ve
Localizer Katrina Leonoudakis' thread on the, well, recent localizations. Defends the use of the word "cringe" to replace "chunnibyou".
"Childish delusions", if you want English, IMO.
Cringe is not very apt.
It's not as bad as "big brudder" though, that sounded super weird to me (why not "big bro"?), but I'm not a native English speaker.
As for offensive words being regulated, she's way too hyperbolic about it to give us an actual opinion of what she wants to do with it. Outside of the good and bad points she makes about it (something never meant to be offensive becoming offensive because of translation), this is actually enlightening:
[NOTE: Let me be clear: I don't condone racism, sexual assault, pedophilia, or anything like that. The arguments in this thread do NOT defend or argue for the normalization of said acts.
"THE AUDIENCE: What effect would retaining this visual or event have on the intended audience? What portion of the intended audience would be offended or harmed by this content? Alternatively, would removing this content cause more harm than good?"
I think that's the core problem of the current accepted view on this, even if she doesn't really go frankly telling her opinion about it, it's interesting that :
- she needs to put a warning about
normalization of illegal or bad acts because they are depicted in a story. Notice this is never done if we talk about the story of a serial killer Hannibal Lecter style, it's always about sexual violence, or more recently, racism, and its cousin, representation.
- The deification of the
audience feelings, well, part of the audience of course (the vocal minority).
What do these two things have in common?
They're both very woke points :
- Fiction influences reality, so censoring fiction makes reality better for the concerned people.
- Feelings are more important than the truthful representation of the facts, or the original material.
Some of these ideas predate wokeness of course (violence in video games causes mass shooting, or rock music makes you worship satan, or that kiss scene hidden for the chaste eyes of some public in many countries public TV...) . Except these ideas were disappearing over time, only to get back in a way more vicious version.
That's why we have such a consistency problem where violence is perfectly accepted in fiction as being, well, fiction, while sexual violence suddenly has an effect on reality. One battle was won, the war isn't.
Funny thing is that the ones stating these ideas don't even seem to see the double standard.
And as long as we don't solve this problem, weird ass militant translations will continue in the US (and that influences badly the West as a whole unfortunately).
As for memes and weird choices, imo that's kinda another subject, related to either the industry being populated by relatively badly paid younger people, shortsightedness, or just being bad at the job. My guess is a mix of all of that.
