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Okay. Okay. Let's talk about translating 「許さない」.Why do JA>EN translators get it so wrong all the time, and how can we avoid the same shortcomings, lest we, too, never be

There's been a lot of discourse in the English-speaking anime world this week about slang appearing in English localizations.But how does slang end up in subtitles, dubs, or localized games,

Every time you translate 「嫌いじゃない」as "I don't dislike it", God rearranges the radicals in the dictionary lookup. The offending line : "This feeling of playing darts... I don't dislike it."