User blog:KawaTsuyo/Poor Translation

I've been looking around, and there's a lot of bad translation. Particularly when people just write the exact thing in katakana.

That is not a translation. That is just a transliteration. And the result has no meaning unless you understand English in the first place.

And when people say that "スチュアンドスチュ" (suchu-ando-suchu) is literally "such and such," that just looks bad. It is phonetically that; literally, it has no meaning.

Try Wiktionary. Even if you don't have any experience with Japanese, it will give you several good translations for whatever you want. It's great for kanji lookups too, and it lists all the readings for just about any kanji. It makes it incredibly easy. Literally, all of my translations have been accomplished with just that and Google Translate (which I don't trust the grammar, but use to check vocabulary). It's a great help.

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