why are book translation standards so strict? video game translators

>>9320151
Writing isn't as important in Video games

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>>9320151
Care to explain what the fuck you are talking about. Examples would be swell. Terrible bait desu.

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>>9320151
>mfw it's real
What the fuck is wrong with America?

>>9320151
Shit bait but why should they not be strict? I remember finding a book in my native language which was a translation from french which was a translation from chinese.

>>9320157
fpbp

>>9320161
look at pic related

i dont mean this as bait

its just interesting that video game translators arent nearly as scrupulous as book translators - pic related is apparently just SOP in video games.

is there an example of anything like this in the book world?

>>9320157
even if i grant that, i would think that a translator is a translator - as soon as you take on the role of translation, the issues become obvious: authorial intent v. comprehensibility, etc. and the idea of adding your own political commentary to the script seems obviously like the wrong thing to do. obviously the translator simply thought "this is for americans, americans will think this is funny" and its that attitude about translation that's interesting to me because i never see it with books.

>>9320151

Ezra Pound disagrees