Forum:Consistency in Translation

So here's an issue we have on this wiki. There's no consistency on what gets translated and what doesn't. No matter which side you're on (translated or direct), you have to agree that every article should match. We use "Kairoseki" instead of "Seastone". We use "no Mi" instead of "Fruit". We say "Santoryu Ogi: Rokudo no Tsuji" instead of "Three Swords Style Secret Technique: Crossing of Six Paths". On the other hand, we have "Devil Fruit" and not "Akuma no Mi". We have "Fishman" instead of "Gyojin". We use "Thousand-Year Trees" instead of "Sen'nen Boku". If we're going to translate some of them, we can't be selective. We have to translate them all. If we're not going to, then put the others back into Romanized Japanese. Now, I'm personally for translation, but I'm just here to open discussion for now. 23:45, February 24, 2015 (UTC)

Discussion
I support translating everything except for the Devil Fruits, since those are more debatable (would we change Gomu to Gum or Rubber?) and keeping the "no mi" is consistent with the name itself. The term "Devil Fruit" isn't really as difficult to translate, so it stays as Devil Fruit. I think there was a topic on this not too long ago.

But everything else? Yeah, those can be English. Why the hell do we have Kairoseki? I don't even think the weeaboos use that. 01:05, February 25, 2015 (UTC)

Ryu said one or the other therefore if something is untranslated then he wants it all translated or everything untranslated. Attack names are also the same situation with Devil Fruits anyway. SeaTerror (talk) 01:18, February 25, 2015 (UTC)

I said that I wanted to open discussion. I'm not pushing for anything other than acknowledgement that we do, in fact, have inconsistency on the wiki. Specific cases can be fought over (Should Whitebeard be Shirohige? Should Akainu be Red Dog?), but for now, let's look at the big picture. Do we want to translate or not? 01:51, February 25, 2015 (UTC)

In general, I support translating. Stuff like Kairoseki definitely needs to go. I disagree with Nada on the fruit names (that was my forum, btw). However, I think it might be best to leave technique names untranslated, because they tend to include so many foreign words. If we translate the Japanese, then why not the French? And the parts that were originally in English won't stand out anymore if we translate everything.

I'd like to bring up two highly debated cases, though: Yonko and Shichibukai. Now, Yonko has a pretty simple translation, so I might support translating it. But Shichibukai - Would we use the inexact but appealing "Seven Warlords of the Sea" or the literal but awkward "Seven Military Seas"? 02:19, February 25, 2015 (UTC)