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On 27 Sep 2025 13:22:33 GMT Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote: > > sometimes coincidence > > or shared linguistic heritage hands you an easy one, > > Of course, French, Italian and Spanish are closely related to each > other. English is related even if less closely. But Japanese and > Chinese aren't. So sometimes, a translation from French to Spanish > would be easy. From french to English would be more difficult and > from French to Japanese or Chinese would be impossible. Even in very different languages, translators can get lucky. There's an early storyline in Ranma 1/2 where the female lead's hair gets sheared off during a fight between two of the other characters, and the author got in a shameless pun on "kega wa nakute" (she wasn't injured) and "ke ga nakunatta" (she lost her hair.) The staff for the English release, happily, were able to preserve it: "At least she wasn't injured." "Yeah, but she sure got a bad cut!"
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