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    Final Fantasy is not a niche anime, also Ted Woolsey and Shakespeare

    I'm gonna point out some things

    • Unlike a niche anime set in a Japanese high-school where the audience is small enough to be expected to know something about the county of origin, an 100 accurate translation down to the retaining of honorifics is not necessary.
    • The game (and Franchise) are inspired by western fantasy and mythology, and I'm pretty sure Toliken (which all modern fantasy rips off by default) did make his world similar to the eras that inspired his epics in many ways, dialogue especially included, XIV's localization does the same. You are in a medieval fantasy world? expect medieval sounding dialogue, not chanspeak, memes and esoteric abbreviations (well except in the chat itself)
    • At one point a man worked for localizing game for SE, Ted Woolsy. He was not exactly known for accurate translations, leading to things like "You Spoony Bard!" The fans liked his work and thus his legacy lives on to this day in many areas (And you can consider Fernehawnes to be his direct successor in this regard)
    • Shakespeare wasn't even Shakespeare, his many works, while great, consist of various innuendos, double entrendes and sexual puns, that became obscured by linguistics drift (To quote the late Terry Pratchett "The Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without saying three of them")
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    Last edited by Morningstar1337; 10-17-2015 at 12:20 AM.