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Originally Posted by Kickback

Everyone please drop the hostilities at each other.

I think the point Drakkhen was trying to state is that you cannot truly learn a language from a fansub, and for a variety of reasons - for starters, the Japanese language has many words that do NOT translate correctly or literally, not to mention the use of "slang" in each language is entirely different. When that happens, translators take the liberty of trying to "Americanize" the slang, resulting in a different meaning or word than what is actually being said.

You may be able to pick up some common words and phrases, but like Spanish (which I took 8 years of) ... just because you know "biblioteca" is "library" and "querer" means "to want" and "yo" means "I" doesn't mean that "yo querer biblioteca" means "I want to go to the library" ... it actually translates "I to want library". "Yo quiero ir a la biblioteca" on the other hand ... (close but still not exact translation).

That's the point he was trying to make, and he took insult to the fact that those who have studied a language for years and years and still can't say they "know" or have "learned everything" are somehow up to par with people watching loosely translated fansubs.

I hope that makes sense

Acknowledged. I never meant that I was on par with people who actually knew the language. I do apologize to Drakkhen. I know how that can be. I have similar sensitivity to other issues. And I personally feel this argument was more "stubbornness and misunderstanding" than hostility, but consider it dropped.