Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150223174230/@comment-6192846-20150224005950

67.65.248.45 wrote: Snip.

This is true. There's no denying that other fandoms and series aren't as quick to go with whatever a creator gives as the English spelling just on the merits of them being the creator. Many use them as a place for guidance or put faith in their authority on character/place names but otherwise work with their own translators/translations. It is common for Japanese to simply have something in a foreign language, regardless of accuracy, simply because it's a cool gimmick for the natives.

And it does sound a bit perverse on our part to always joke about how bad mothy is at English, even himself, then mindlessly go with whatever he says. Not to say we should disregard anything he says, especially when it's found to be accurate.

But there definitely have been those topics when something ends up being overly literal or wordy (like Gift from the Princess who Brought Sleep), awfully awkward (She decided to revenge), or just not making sense with what we're given. And giving it more thought, we can and have always updated/corrected translations when we find a clear error or have a discussion about it. But when mothy suddenly throws a title, we suddenly go with it regardless of whether it actually works.

At the same time, that's a lot for us to take up on our end in how liberally we feel we should be. I definitely wouldn't want us making that jump and then having the floodgates open as everyone tries having something changed because they feel "madness" is better than "lunacy" or what have you.