Why is this punctuated as "Blind Idiot" Translation? That would be a translation of the phrase "blind idiot". This is a translation by a blind idiot - a translation by a native speaker would be a Native Speaker Translation, not a "Native Speaker" Translation.

EDIT: Never mind, just saw the explanation on the page.

Why does clicking Engrish lead back here? It seems like they mean different things, so shouldn't it be its own trope?

what would the music section be called

I wanna add Madonna's I'm Sorry to it (the Dutch "ik ben droevig" is more from "I'm sad" a better translation would be "Het spijt me")

I'm curious would in-universe examples of Blind Idiot Translation (ex: Melody Pond -> River Song) fall under this or another trope?

"Final Fantasy VII also gives us the classic boss name mistranslation "Safer Sephiroth." Gee, Square, you sure it's not supposed to be "SERAPH" as in the angel with those wings and all? "

This again? The katakana (セーファ, "seefa") cannot possibly be interpreted as Seraph. The name is actually meant to be Sefer Sephiroth, sefer being Hebrew for "book" and the whole name being a Kabbalah reference.

So...what's the difference between this trope and Translation Train Wreck? The pages don't make it clear. It seems like it's just The Same But More.

Third indented bullet in the Hellsing example seems somewhat confusing. At first read it seems like it's giving more examples of the trope on Alucard's glove, but then gives an example of how the German phrase is actually a correct translation! So after reading a few times it looks like it's meant to be a subversion. But is it just me or is it not worded very well?

Also, the main example looks a but overblown to me. There are some far worse example that I've seen on the page, yet the trope in Hellsing is described as "Horribly, horribly present".

Anybody else agree?

Quite honestly, I think this page is a lot less funny and a lot harder to follow than whoever wrote it thought. I mean sure, do the top paragraph in faux-bad-translation, but after that its not funny and it gets really difficult to understand.

Jokes are funny twice at the most, not the same exact joke over and over for a whole damn page.

Removed:

• Final Fantasy XIV: "To create characters on your FINAL FANTASY XIV service account, you must possess automatically continuous options."

This is just something people get confused over. 'Automatically Continuous Options' is a proper term as defined by the account agreements and so forth, it's just nobody bothers to read those. The above, in fact, is a perfectly fine translation in light of legal documentation, it's just bad phrasing on the part of someone who speaks English in the first place.

I originally added a similar explanation as a note on the page proper, but of course, we're supposed to remove irrelevant entries, aren't we? So now I've removed it, added this explanation here, and replaced the removed segment instead with the story about how the outsourced localisers mis-translated Chocobo as 'horse-bird'. And then 'Chocopo'.

So, um, what happened to the Troper Tales page?

Removed this one:

• In a reversed case, English was blind idiot translated to Chinese here.

Unless you're good at reading Chinese, there is NO WAY to tell that's a Blind Idiot Translation.

This page needs major clean up, as most of these are either just Whining About Translation Choices You Don't Agree With or Gratuitous Foreign Language...

I have trouble following what goes on here anymore. Was the complete blanking of the page, followed by a restoration with mostly generic examples actually authorized? And if so, is there anywhere to store obvious examples of mis-transliteration of words without care for what they're actually supposed to say, or are we letting all such things die?

• Asian languages like Japanese are notoriously tricky to translate into any Western language, due to having a very different set of phonemes; the most well known is L / R ["luh" and "ruh"] which results in the stereotypical stupid Japanese accent, as the equivalent sound in Japanese is somewhere between both. There's numerous others, though; B / V, is / ith (probably most notable for producing "Aeris") and others. This is aggravated by the difference in writing systems, as most Asian languages use either pictograms or syllabic alphabets, which means that foreign words can only be transliterated phonetically (i.e. by approximating how they sound like to a native speaker). If something's a proper noun, be prepared for guesswork.

OK, what do phonemes have to do with translation?

What does the Welsh (in the page image sign) actually say? I can't tell if the original caption-writer was being sarcastic or not...