Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160518062840/@comment-25936766-20160519180026

RayStrikeAbius wrote: -You're using one very simple example. Half of the things I put into the translator don't make any sense coming out, and when I put them back through going the other way, they mean something entirely different from what I started with. If you paste entire sentences, of course it won't make sense. Do this: Grab each japanese word (and by this, I mean the way it's written with this alphabet, english characters instead of japanese characters) in a japanese sentence, and 1 by 1, translate them in Google Translate to English.

It's true that japanese relies too much on context, but there's nothing wrong with that. It allows genius wordplay. Grab a word and use it because it fits whatever you want to do with it. If the word happens to mean something different in a different context, you can be creative and use it in a way fitting of the character.

Or basically: Use a word that means X, but that can also mean Y, fitting of the character in the former, but implying something different with the latter. It's been done in anime and manga for decades.