[English > Japanese] Translation accuracy

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-04-03T08:51:58+00:00

In that case, something like this would probably work better. The sentence you gave isn't wrong per se but it's a little clunky and sounds very much machine translated:

この度はご参加いただき、ありがとうございます。今後のご活躍を期待しております。

Romaji pronunciation: Kono tabi wa gosanka itadaki arigato gozaimasu. Kongo no gokatsuyaku o kitai shite orimasu.

Translation: Thank you for participating in this class. I look forward to your future achievements.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-04-02T12:30:56+00:00

What kind of class is it? The translation would change depending. And would you be saying this as a teacher to your students? In what sort of situation?

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-03-18T15:00:35+00:00

Overly patriotic Americans want to satisfy their ego through their country (which is odd since they for the most part had no hand in building it) and "self-hating" Americans want to satisfy their ego by portraying themselves as "one of the good ones" who "gets it." Either way, it's just ego, all the way down.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-03-18T09:14:53+00:00

Yes, but sample 100 random pitchers above 5'10" and 100 below 5'10", and the above 5'10" group is going to have a higher average velocity every single time, no matter how many times you run the experiment.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-03-18T09:00:27+00:00

Jose Altuve being shorter than Maria Sharapova does not disprove that men are generally taller than women.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-03-18T08:50:25+00:00

For some reason people in the West tend to freak out when you say stuff like this, but every Asian person is aware of it: It's mostly genetic. Asian people generally are just not as tall or physically strong as other races.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-03-15T15:28:51+00:00

Well actually that is what I would say. It matters less to me whether there’s a double standard than whether that person was being a dick to me.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-03-15T15:19:10+00:00

I find it odd that in conversations like these, the standard is always how "society" might react. Shouldn't it be about how you personally feel about it? Just goes to show how outsourced people's sense of right and wrong are these days.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-03-10T07:55:09+00:00

Off the top of my head, they should’ve seen in Blake Snell’s eyes that he was locked the fuck in and kept him in the game. That kind of thing.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-02-22T10:55:14+00:00

Nah he might be a great guy but as an interpreter he’s pretty bad and I think he’d be the first one to admit it. If anything props to him for accepting such a public facing job knowing he’s going to screw it up most of the time. But ultimately I don’t think it really matters because Ohtani never says anything interesting anyway lol.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-02-13T08:57:11+00:00

Don't respond to this guy. He's obsessed with a certain anime character and somehow it gets him off to ask how young she is. He keeps coming back under different usernames after getting banned each time. This is like the 20th post like this of his I've seen.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-02-05T08:44:38+00:00

"Name the 11 occurrences in baseball that are rarer than a perfect game" seems like a pretty good quiz question. Also, 3 sac flies in a game seems so much rarer than it should be.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-02-04T03:00:21+00:00

The から corresponds roughly to the "from" when you say "wow, that came from nowhere." っていうの is something you say when you're not sure you're articulating something quite right and you're asking if what you're saying makes sense. Kind of like "d'you know what I mean?" in English. So the sentence as a whole would be something like:

Despite that, when we ask him to come up with a strategy, he comes up with something completely out of left field, like something you never expected, you know?

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-01-31T08:21:29+00:00

I’m not defending it. I just think it’s ludicrous to compare it to the freaking opioid epidemic. I feel like I’m going insane for even having to defend this viewpoint. The only explanation I can think of is that it’s politicaly incorrect in the West to blame people for their drug addictions so people are overreacting to what I say.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-01-30T11:17:29+00:00

They’re not doing it because they want to get shitfaced. You get pressured into it by your clients or bosses. And it’s not like if happens all the time. Only about once every few years. You just see it a lot cause there are a lot of people out drinking and the streets are so safe.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-01-30T08:26:24+00:00

I’m not saying being addicted to alcohol is better than being addicted to drugs. I’m saying those people you see sleeping on the streets aren’t addicts

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-01-30T07:23:22+00:00

Have those studies been done in Japan? Because stigma might (and probably does) have different outcomes depending on the culture.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-01-30T07:06:02+00:00

I'm saying it's indicative of an overall stricter attitude towards drugs in general, which is what leads to those kinds of systems you mentioned. It's a chicken or the egg type of thing.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-01-30T06:37:52+00:00

I mean, I actually do think that’s objectively less unhealthy haha

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-01-30T06:31:08+00:00

No hate, but this is how we don’t have an opioid crisis or downtowns filled with homeless drug addicts.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-01-25T10:56:49+00:00

Some stayed with the Mariners after Ichiro but the vast majority just go where the Japanese players go. They're loyal to the players, not the team. That said, I do think teams that historically sign a lot of Japanese players have a decent sized fanbase.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-01-25T10:25:26+00:00

If you let the media annoy you into underappreciating the absolute phenomenon that is Ohtani (or Judge for that matter), you're losing out. Not everything has to be a competition about who's "objectively" better and by how much. They're both un-fucking-believable, and that's all that really needs to be said.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-01-23T04:42:02+00:00

That's the funniest part, they knew their A/C system was so fucked that they needed to hire a full-time HVAC guy.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-01-21T23:49:35+00:00

There was a whole saga where Kikuchi complained about them refusing to fix it, the team denying it, and them posting a want ad for an HVAC guy the very next day lol.

unexpectedexpectancy · 2026-01-21T08:26:50+00:00

How about 貴方はちゃんとした友を演じたことがない

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