03:23 <joelteon> Fuck this is stressful

05:14 <whitequark> this translation is truly impressive

05:14 <whitequark> usually I don't use russian translations 'cause they suck hard (often being 2nd order translations, from english), but it's not the case

05:15 <whitequark> the translators heavily lean on russian idiomatics and vernacular expressions

05:16 <whitequark> actually I think it is simply not possible to make an equally good english translation without resorting to writing commentary in subtitles

05:17 <whitequark> case in point, in the opening koji kumeta includes a rather obscure joke, scrolling around with about 2 seconds per line

05:17 <whitequark> and what'd you think, they mapped it to an equally obscure (no idea whether close in meaning) joke in russian

05:18 <whitequark> <3 translators with a bad case of OCD

05:20 <whitequark> another example is ookami to koushinryou, where they managed to find a *full cast* with voices close enough the difference is actually not noticeable when switching between jp/en tracks

05:23 <aki_> cryptocurrencies are haaaaard

05:23 <whitequark> not to say they (translators of SZS) have also translated almost all writing on the blackboard

05:23 <whitequark> which don't even make very much sense

08:38 <devyn> whitequark: wow neat

08:38 <whitequark> yup!

08:39 <whitequark> actually, it just dawned on me that SZS is a good enough screening of Kafka

08:39 <whitequark> not literally following his stories, just in the same absurd spirit

08:39 <devyn> glowcoil: pung sounds too vulgar. kinda sexual.

08:39 <devyn> glowcoil: granted that could be intended.

08:40 <devyn> okay. just wanted to make sure my server was actually connected to the internet; going to sleep now

08:53 <joelteon> hey devyn

08:53 <joelteon> how do you spell blog in japanese

08:59 <vigs> ブログ, maybe?

08:59 <joelteon> did you google translate that

08:59 <vigs> Nah, I took japanese for two years

08:59 <joelteon> oh

08:59 <vigs> I'm just guessing that it'd be a transliteration into katakana. I don't know if they actually have a word for "blog"

08:59 <joelteon> yeah I doubt it

09:00 <vigs> Yeah, I wouldn't think so, either.

09:34 <whitequark> actually, I think it was intended as that...

11:21 <glowcoil> devyn: ... doesn't sound very sexual to me haha

11:21 <glowcoil> subjective of course but I just think it sounds funny

11:21 <glowcoil> :p

13:32 <whitequark> they stopped translating text on blackboard after first season :(

17:16 <prophile> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXZ-ijNAFVM

18:25 <joelteon> ok all done