Talk:晩年 (Bannen)/@comment-1523675-20160421041927/@comment-25648422-20180415194706

Firstly, according to damesukekun, he does not take translation requests. Secondly, he only makes translations of songs if he feels like it.

I'm not sure if either of you read the blog that he linked. Either way, allow me to say all of this.

Grave mistranslations of songs can turn out to be quite a big deal. Even the names of songs are gravely mistranslated and as a result, are thought by many to be the actual English translation of the names of those songs as if they are canon! Take note of the following:

Compare the differences between the incorrect and the correct English translations of the song's names? A little too different from each other, right?

I've come across some English translations and yet, from the structure wording, they hardly make any sense or they make little sense. And no, they are not exactly as a result from the Japanese lyrics having tons of grammatical errors. Most of the VOCALOID songs are written in good grammar.

Because of this, we cannot just take every single English translation of VOCALOID songs that we see to use in this wiki. Grave mistranslations can take away the original meanings of songs.

And not only that. From mistranslations, misconceptions also occur to, resulting in them being passed around as if they are really true information. Two misconceptions I know that have been spread around are eating considered as a metaphor for sex in Japan and the so-called "custom" where people in Japan place their goldfish in a cardboard box when they (the goldfish) die. damesukekun confirmed both "conceptions" to be false. For the former, he said there is no such considered metaphor in Japan and for the latter, they don't have such custom in Japan at all. I myself have researched on both of these, only to find nothing of the sort.