User blog comment:Damesukekun/Song Translating and Mistranslating/@comment-76.121.93.88-20130103163811/@comment-53539-20130103164723

Dame is Japanese, their language is not English first, since the differences between the two languages is quite a bit even the best translators make mistake. Example; the word "Damashii" only roughly translates to "spirit" but its not "spirit" in the same context we think of spirit as, the meaning is slightly different... :-/

I don't know what this is about with the whole questioning of a translation from Dame then again, but I just noting what I've come to note from this issue. A lot of folks will jump on high expectations of perfect translations, without considering that to get a sentence as close as possible, a translator may have to put their own spin on the text. Things are often lost in meaning and sometimes accurate translations don't work for their usage. :-/