Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-34670219-20170107070406/@comment-53539-20170108091750

I wouldn't do that.

Here is the thing, a experiment was once done. Starting in one language, a message was translated into another. And then another, and so forth. Eventually, the message was translated back into the original language and resembled nothing on the original messages meaning.

In short, the more languages you translate into, the more the original message is lost. For English translations, its better to go straight from Japanese -> English.

Also Japanese has a issue that when translating into western languages, there are a great number of problems. As highlighted by Damsukekun, in Japanese its possible to have the words "a person died in the street" and "a person was murdered in the street" be the same wording. This complicates things when translating into another language, as though a Japanese native person would know the true meaning, a non-Japanese speaker may not get what it means.

Its one of those languages where things are often lost in translation. Just because one language can translate something more accurately, doesn't mean its going to be more reliable.

Off the top of my head... I can remember that "face" (not meaning human face) and "surface" can mean different things even in some European countries, but in Japan it can be the same word. So even translating that single word alone can have issues... And when you consider "Damashii", which is often translated into English as "spirit" doesn't 100% means "spirit" in Japanese and is merely the closet translation, you'll have to bare in mind that this issue isn't going to be just restricted to English.

So sadly anon, I don't feel your advice is all that solid at all and is actually going to create more issues then solve depending on how things go. :-/