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Why is linguistics knowledge so thin among fansubbers? I don't mean things like knowledge of the grammatical rules of prestige English and Japanese understanding. More like a general meta-linguistic awareness of language in general.

because we all have IT degrees and never studied linguistics formally

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I saw you're watching CR for Konosuba. I recommend you Kuusou. They released ep6 before HorribleSubs and joletb is pretty based. (and Kuusou's video quality is the best compared to FFF/Chihiro)

i already have 6 episodes of HS downloaded and it's already set up in my RSS filter so i don't really care enough to switch to another release with the same subs
if the video had severe issues i would, but it seems fine, so

https://ask.fm/Xythar/answers/136002433400 The people who speak it call it فارسی. Shouldn't the English name for the language be somewhat influenced by English speakers?

that seems kind of backwards. sort of like if a guy introduces himself to you as Tarou and you're like "whoa there, 太郎, but I think I should have some say on how you're referred to in english. and I've decided your name is Bob."

Do you think the most common language in Iran should be called Farsi or Persian?

I'll leave that decision to the people who speak it

Is a bad translation better than no translation at all?

depends on level of bad. a truly bad translation is worse than no translation

Do you think it's possible for a blind person to fansub?

I don't see why not. Most of fansubbing is about working with text and audio anyway.

Why did you join Twitter? (Question prompted by one of your recent tweets about people wanting to pester celebs online)

to auto-tweet scores from music games, lol
but I got more into it like a year after that mostly to blog all my random thoughts online and hang out with friends. I don't really follow celebs / brands / news outlets / etc.

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