As a professional translator doing mostly legal documents, instruction manuals and really technical documents, I would love to do games or anime, but you gotta go where the money is...

Do the people voting not understand what the word "influential" means? Or are they just basing it on influence in terms of their own lives?

I am staunchly against whatever this article says!

God, Dawoody's Japanese is terrible. You're making Google Translate look good.

Sorry, I often hear is what I meant.

I often here people say that my profession, translator, will be replaced by robots, but I don't see that happening until I'm already retired. Machine translation just can't understand context or nuance to produce natural language.

I'm kind of on the fence about this one. No. 4 is a huge red flag in my book. In the hiring process, even the slightest hint that you want to limit the amount of work you will do (and, as they say, they are class oriented) is tantamount to saying that you won't be a dedicated worker.

I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but is Pornhub really indicative of all of the porn-viewing habits of Americans?

Or, you could just play Xenogears twenty times over. That's what I would do.

I'm more interested in the fact that Darth Vader IGNORED a memo published just one month before the destruction of the Death Star entitled, "Rebel Alliance Determined to Strike in Death Star." Obviously, the whole thing was a false-flag conspiracy to get the rest of the Empire on board for the planned invasion of Hoth.

"Faux-medieval dialogue?" Sounds like they really messed up the translation. The dialogue in the Japanese version isn't like that at all.

You, sir, have set an example that all people should emulate.

As a man, I think the best compliment is when a woman genuinely laughs at my jokes.

You are talking about the most common review scores, right?

I want a CEFR/Cambridge/IELTS type of test. They have them for English, so why not Japanese? I have done translation and interpreting, but I certainly wasn't ready for that when I passed JLPT 1.

Aw, that's so adorably ineffective.

The entire country of Japan only has about 500 murders per year. Not gun murders. 500 or so murders total.

If only this were the most serious issue affecting Japanese-Korean relations...

It's not just the grammar that's bad. The pronunciation is also horrible. It was definitely intentional, though. You can't mess up the language to that extent without really trying at it.

I know that this was a tentative itinerary and the dates could be changed, but why so little time in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan? For that matter, a whole month in LA? What's there to do for a month in LA?