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Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon
Translation is an art, not a science.
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Translation has more of a science than of an art, because translation depends on *accuracy*.
It's a translator's job to actually *translate* what the original text said, while staying as close to the original as possible (without sounding unnatural).
You can't simply make up random stuff (or change around stuff however you see fit) and then even claim that it's "perfectly valid". That's got nothing to do with *translation* anymore
Just because there are so many bad examples of how a translation *shouldn't* look like (CrunchyTroll often has it pretty bad there), doesn't suddenly make it right.