{"id":589,"date":"2005-05-07T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-08T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/05\/07\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-16T02:20:34","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T06:20:34","slug":"oh-the-grammar-it-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/05\/07\/oh-the-grammar-it-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the grammar, it burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Bootleg translations make my head hurt.<\/p>\n<p>The phrasing is just so unexpected. It takes a moment for my brain to translate the crappy English into something understandable, and if I&#8217;ve actually caught the Japanese, to try and translate -that- and see if it matches what I&#8217;ve come up with&#8230; by which time three more people have spoken and just ow ow ow.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, if the anime companies want to put an end to bootlegs, just make people watch them.<\/p>\n<p>So why am I watching them? Because I&#8217;ve had these boots of Kodocha for about a year now, via Jun, and I had the urge to watch the series.  The fansubs I have are on VHS (and thus virtually inaccessible unless I feel like dealing with a tape, which I don&#8217;t) and the actual series isn&#8217;t out yet on DVD in the US.<\/p>\n<p>At least they haven&#8217;t messed up the names as badly as the few bootleg episodes of Prince of Tennis I&#8217;ve had the misfortune of watching.  When it actually says on screen &#8216;Terry&#8217; and people are yelling Terry Terry, and the katakana says teri, and you use the name Taylor, I really have to wonder what the hell kind of babelfish program you&#8217;re using.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bootleg translations make my head hurt. The phrasing is just so unexpected. It takes a moment for my brain to translate the crappy English into something understandable, and if I&#8217;ve actually caught the Japanese, to try and translate -that- and see if it matches what I&#8217;ve come up with&#8230; by which time three more people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}