February 03, 2013

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Dog Days Dash, ep 2, 03:59

The girls have gotten MCSA'ed by Rico and Yuki, and are back at the aid station looking for a change of clothes. They encounter Godwin there, and turn around. "Don't look, you perv!" more or less.

Crunchyroll translated his response as "Like I would." Commie made it "Not much to see."

That's enough of a difference so that I listened to it several times to find out his real words. What he says is dare ga mieru ka.

I think that means "what is there to see?" so I have to give the win to Commie this time.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Japanese at 07:26 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 Literally the "dare" is looking (dare ga). So literally it's "who's looking!" However, it does not fall in with English well. I had literally the same problem with Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Gekijou #8. Original said "dare ga ikuka", and I had to switch it to something that's not literally that, to preserve the flow. That reaped similar critique, too.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at February 03, 2013 07:55 PM (RqRa5)

2 I didn't look up dare and I remembered it wrong as "what" instead of "who". I guess that's one of many reasons why I'm not a translator.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 03, 2013 08:01 PM (+rSRq)

3

I always mix those up, too.  The k/s/a/d sound at the start of the word for "near me/near you/near neither of us/unsure about" is all I get right.

I really should break out the Rosetta Stone or something sometime and make a proper effort to learn a functional amount of the language.

Posted by: Mikeski at February 03, 2013 09:43 PM (DU6Ja)

4 I don't have the episode in front of me, and I don't have good sound where I'm at, but I would bet solid money it's "miru" not "mieru."

That "dare" requires a transitive verb like miru.  "dare ga mieru ka" doesn't make a lot of sense in context.

Posted by: tellu541 at February 03, 2013 10:29 PM (iUG5M)

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