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GastonRabbit
MOD
(General of TV Troops)
2022-01-02 09:44:26
Suspended for edit warring. Also, Translation Train Wreck isn't YMMV, so standalone examples of it are never allowed on YMMV pages.
You can't just say "perchance".

The troper yin_13147 had Translation Train Wreck listed on the Qian Qiu YMMV page and even made a subpage (now deleted) that listed translation complaints about the official subtitles. Based on what the YMMV entry and examples said, the official translation isn't awful enough to qualify for the trope (it has laughable issues but it's still comprehensible and only partly mistranslated). I can't retrieve the old examples, but here's some links
with screenshots
of the official subtitles
that show it isn't Translation Train Wreck levels of bad as a whole.
I removed the trope from the YMMV page
with an edit reason and had the subpage cutlisted while moving some examples to the main page under Lost in Translation (I made a mistake here as most of the examples didn't apply to that trope either, but that's been fixed now). The troper just recently re-added TranslationTrainWreck
to YMMV by potholing it in another entry under Narm ("But mistranslations mistranslations and atrociously-phrased dialogue dialogue aside, [...]"). I've explained to them in a message why the trope doesn't apply to the work, but may I remove that pothole at least?
May be worth mentioning that the troper seems to be obsessed with talking about the work's translation quality, as they also previously made a Qian Qiu Lost in Translation subpage (also cutlisted) just to replicate the examples from the old Translation Train Wreck subpage and list other errors/critique.