Vincent Seifert <seifertv@ccshp1.ccs.csus.edu> wrote:

AKANE: Another of the many hazards of gratuitous Japanese, I guess.

GERTRUDE: Funny how he doesn't object to the gratuitous German, though.

Well, there is a relevant difference. Gert is speaking German to
characters who understand Japanese, in a scene where the point-of-view
language is Japlish (Japanese rendered into English for the benefit of
the readers). In short, she's using a language other than the one that's
default for the scene. It'd be analogous to a scene where Ranma and
company are in the US, speaking (mostly) English to Americans.

GJ, on the other hand, is where Japanese characters are speaking
Japanese with other Japanese characters, and the Japanese in the scene
is rendered into English, but the writer leaves some words untranslated
just because he or she thinks those words are really neato-keen. The
analogous thing would be a scene where Gert speaks with other German
characters, in German. In such a scene, IMO, either all of the German
dialog should be rendered into English (with reasonable exceptions being
proper names, words with no good translation, bilingual wordplay, etc.),
or none of it should.


Gary Kleppe ("Make a pun, go to heaven!")
http://www.akane.org/gary/comics.html

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