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Topic	Playing through FF7 for the first time (spoilers duh lol)
Not_an_Owl 03/15/21 3:49:26 PM #10:	pjbasis posted... Translations were just bad back then. Something about the way japanese sentence order works is the opposite of english so you get weird things like that sometimes. From what I understand, the translator was basically just working off a spreadsheet that had all the Japanese lines in it and was translating them with zero in-game context. This doesn't excuse some of the more egregious translation fuckups (~~this guy are sick~~), but given how context-heavy the Japanese language is it's easy to see how things like "attack when the tail's up" might slip through. --- Besides, marijuana is far more harmful than steroids. - BlitzBomb I headbang to Bruckner. <cite>Not_an_Owl posted [p:951738804] in Playing th... [t:79349939]...</cite> <quote>pjbasis posted... </cite> <quote>Translations were just bad back then. Something about the way japanese sentence order works is the opposite of english so you get weird things like that sometimes.</quote>From what I understand, the translator was basically just working off a spreadsheet that had all the Japanese lines in it and was translating them with zero in-game context. This doesn't excuse some of the more egregious translation fuckups (this guy are sick), but given how context-heavy the Japanese language is it's easy to see how things like "attack when the tail's up" might slip through. --- Besides, marijuana is far more harmful than steroids. - BlitzBomb I headbang to Bruckner.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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