From: "Boaz MyTurnASpace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [gundam] MG Zeta 2.0
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:37:24 -0500
The translation is wrong. For you who can read Kanji, go check out the
Japanese version.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/atmoney/yw/yw06022601.htm
The "370 million" is not refering to anything about money/yen, but "unit":
"ÝvÌÂÍÈñÆ37000ÂÅ é"
Babelfish translation:
"The sum total sale quantity is as many as 3 hundred million 7000 ten
thousand"
It's saying the accumulative Gunpla sales has been 370 million unit (since
day 1 of gunpla sales, I believe).
That's indeed the correct amount sold to date.
But don't blame the translator. That paragraph start talking about yen
price
of Gunpla first then suddenly turn to sales figure.
In this case, I think you can blame him/her. I understand when you're
dealing with translating newspaper articles that you can run into a wide
variety of subjects with which the translator is unfamiliar. But the proper
spelling of "Gunpla" or the amount of it sold over the years...you can
double check that sort of thing on English and Japanese sites. And that
particular sentence doesn't look like something that should be troublesome
for someone who gets paid to translate news stories.
But that's why they have that disclaimer at the bottom of the page: "WaiWai
stories are transcriptions of articles that originally appeared in Japanese
language publications. The Mainichi Daily News cannot be held responsible
for the contents of the original articles, nor does it guarantee their
accuracy."
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On 2/28/06, Dr. Core <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This reminds me of
>
http://aeug.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_aeug_archive.html#114084802208384456
>
> I was reading the English article on Mainichi and somethings just look
> wrong... 370million yens? WTH? That's the annual revenue from
> Japan??? Under US$3.5mil???
>
> Then I got Babelfish to translate the article from Japanese again.
> Gosh the "offical" English version is AWFUL. 300 Yens in the Japanese
> article became 3000 Yens in the English. 370 Million units (kits?)
> became 370 Million Yens.
>
> Mainichi is mainstream news in Japan isn't it? Just unbelieveable.
>
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