[andre2907]

andre2907 - take it easy...

like evolusean said, translation is a bad thing... things get lost in translation and it all goes down to the person's understand of the context and then how they interpret it...

Also you clearly said that Kumi mentioned in the specials that she confirmed she had eyelid surgery... On all translation notes I've read and the parts I've understood, I haven't seen her "confirm" anything! evolusean even proved it with his understanding of the language by providing the word and everything....

OK, I won’t search for you, but I’m sure it’s there. In the first or second part, her mother advices her to do it (because she never pass the auditions because she isn’t kawaii enough).

The only reason nobody translated this that I can think about, it’s because she don’t speak it in usual Japanese, only in Kansai-ben, so unless you’re a native or very fluent you’ll understand. Anyway, it’s there, believe it or not, and you’re just making yourself look dumb by saying this isn’t true.

Also Max never called her ugly.. this is a direct translation of the line where he calls Kumi fat... I got it translated TWICE by two different people... A Native Japanese person and my Japanese teacher...


"She sings well, but she is fat* that we can't say alot about her looks."

I know she didn’t called her ugly!! I translated the line too, he says he was in the judging committee and she had the best voice by far, but she was fat. I translated what he said from Portuguese, it’s somewhere in the locked topic. I know what he said, so can people stop using the original thing I translated. Uwasa did the translation right, I translated it wrong, but I corrected myself. And anyway, there isn’t the “chubby” word in Portuguese and that was the language I translated .

I don't see why you're getting so defensive about this site and you'd rather trust this website than someone who is actually fluent in the language... Yes so the webmaster is fluent in the language but they didn't translate it directly to english... It got translated to another one and that's where you translated it into English... stuff can get misinterpreted, exaggerated,
missed etc...

OK, it was like this SPECIAL AIRED à UWASA posted a recap à I translated parts of it.

I [b/know[/B] the webmasters, that’s why I trust it. And anyway, how can you say that “why I chose to trust this site”?! That’s just absurd, because you never read the site and don’t know anything about it. Plus, the mods are obviously more fluent than this guy because they understand Kansai-ben and can translate things that he can’t, like her mother advicing her to do the surgery.

(And btw, why would I believe evolusean more than I believe UWASA? I know they are intelligent people, who speak Japanese fluently, lives in Japan, post reliable translations, etc. I don’t know anything about evolusean, just that he knows Japanese and lives in Japan).

But I think the fact that you said that they "NEVER" get it wrong is just a load of bull******.. no offense... noone is perfect... there will always be some kind of error in something that you do...

Obviously they’re not always right, this wasn’t my point. I was just saying that the translation is reliable (and anyway, why would they lie in a recap if they would post the video on YouTube?).

So yes, she confirmed the plastic surgery. Just watch the first 2 parts and you’ll understand if you’re fluent in Japanese. That’s one of the reason Uwasa translation is by far the best: because they are really fluent in Japanese, aren’t fanatic of any artist (therefore, they don’t have afraid of not being nice or translating things and texts fans wouldn’t like. That’s not the case of this special, anyway) and they understand things that apparently no one e1se does (but it’s there, I assure you).

And yes, he didn’t call her “ugly” (it was implicit) and I translated exactly what she said on the locked topic. Yes, the translation isn’t perfect because it’s not a direct translation and I didn’t post it to cause any drama, just to be helpful because when Uwasa reported about the special, nobody never heard about it and it was so unknown that I was accused of lying about the special. But yes, it’s a reliable site so please, don’t say this type of thing or affirm they are lying (I know people will, anyway. But probably one day they’ll find out it was true, like the people who called me a liar about the special because they never heard of it and was IMPOSSIBLE that any English site didn’t report it about it… ha ha)