Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6986530-20161203204120/@comment-23.122.217.39-20161214230725

What Octo said. Regardless of how I might have misworded my reasoning, my point was in defense of using "girlfriend/boyfriend" as being an unambiguous term for the kind of relationship the word means, not arguing that lover could only refer to someone you're having an affair with. It just has connotations along those lines so I didn't want to use it. I do, in fact, also use the term "mistress" when appropriate.

Not to mention that you can have an affair with someone without it being the cheating kind.

This does bring up another point though on how translations will be selected. I think generally what might be expected of this is to have people vote on which translations or translators they want to use and go from there. However in the past, a lot of translation correction and progress has been stymied by opening it to the wiki populace at large--it takes a while for people to share their opinions, and usually those opinions are either vague and wishy-washy, or very strong but on points that are non-negotiable and arbitrary (not trying to be rude but that's how I see it).

I personally feel like it would be best to leave it all up to admin discretion (specifically Octo's, but I realize she's not the only one and they might have other thoughts on the matter). People can still object if they don't like those choices, but I don't think we should let this be a drawn out process of having people just pick which one they like better. Especially considering the sheer number of songs and translations to choose from.