Machine translation isn't 'smart' enough to handle audiovisual work like TV, movies, anime, manga, etc.
I wrote an entire essay about it back in January 2021, but the fact remains even now in 2023.

https://twitter.com/katrinaltrnsl8r/status/1355571409343266819

Audiovisual translators are already criminally underpaid, both due to the intrusion of machine translation in the field as a whole, and the demand to work in the entertainment industry.
At least show your fans and creators more respect by giving them a human translation.

99% of the time, when a game is revealed, the only thing we CAN do is say "Hey! I worked on this!"
Lots of times, we've been waiting years to say it.
But apart from that, we're not allowed to "represent" the company to talk about anything. That's Marketing's job!

https://twitter.com/Artiimas/status/1667978513603854339

You can get in trouble for making the slightest hints about anything that's going to be in a game (or show), because people will take your word as "official".
Leaking anything PURPOSEFULLY, i.e. to get RTs, likes or updoots, is grounds for termination pretty much everywhere.

In Japanese 101, you were probably taught that 天才 means "genius".
But "genius" in English doesn't function the same way that 天才 does in Japanese.
Let's talk about meaning, collocation, and the wonderful world of corpora!🧵#l10n (Yes, this is another short essay that's going to ruin subtitles for you, because once you start seeing it, you won't be able to stop seeing it.
It just can't be helped. You'll never forgive me.)

Have to disagree with this comment🧵, because 「それは。。。」 is not a truncation of the phrases「それは違います」 or 「それは本当だ」.
In these contexts, it's 100% phatic, not literal.
You're still taking the それ too literally.

https://twitter.com/TheZackZeal/status/1648589456788672515

"The character themselves doesn't know which one it is"?
If they're being asked a question and don't know the answer, then they wouldn't be responding with "That's not true/that's right", would they? 😉
In that case, それは HAS to be phatic, and "that's" is even MORE wrong!

Language is complicated, yet somehow, we manage to express infinite meanings with the limited words and sounds we have.
But how do you translate a line of dialogue when the words they're saying don't actually matter?
Let's talk about phatic expressions in translation! 🧵 This is also available to read and share on my website:
katrina-l-translation.online/2023/04/18/tra…
And yes, the Tom Scott video on this is one of my favorites!