Talk:Seidou Takizawa/@comment-25047329-20150501232635/@comment-24494906-20150502160008

Hm... I think the translation is pretty much fine, except for maybe one small inaccuracy. He doesn't say that he's a clown, but that he's on the path of the clown (the word used is "course").

But if you want to see an alternate translation, I suggest you wait for THS's scan. I've read all of their translations for the last volume and given feedback to them. But I did not save THS's translation, so I cannot simply tell you how they translated it. (Sometimes, THS's translator and I disagreed on how some lines should be translated. For example, I think we disagreed on Hide's lines in chapter 136. THS's translator translated them like this (from memory) "I know. Since such things are fine [this is a literal translation of the Japanese expression], quickly come home!" And I would've translated them as "I knew. Who cares about that [However, I did not dispute her translation of that part, I have to make priorities in what I want to havechanged], let's quickly go home!" There were two reasons why THS's translator translated it like that: First, the past tense of "to know" is weird in English. Second, the Japanese imperative and vocative ("let's [...]") only differ in whether the last vowel of the verb form is short or long, and some characters tend to prolong the short vowel. In the end, she stuck to her translation, but she also could not convince me of her translation.)