Translating Tanihara’s gratuitous English as french doesn’t really work for me.

yeah me too :/ reading how she talking in the main manga the french makes no sense, in the one were the translator chose to make it engrish like some kind of broken english to make it sound like she was actualy speaking english instead of japanese :3 really love that part because I coudn’t for the life of me understand french at all

French? Why not just have the french term change to English with a totally different font?

That would it make it less cringe, too comprehensible, and less hostile to readers.

Hard dissagree but whatever.

French? Why not just have the french term change to English with a totally different font?

That would it make it less cringe, too comprehensible, and less hostile to readers.

Hard same. Almost. I'd say the English would need to be translated to a relevant business English.

I don't think anyone has managed to nail these correctly. It's basically people sincerely internalizing productivity gurus, project/product manager certification training, and Ted talks while also not totally understanding them. Barely comprehensible office worker jargon, not incomprehensible foreign language. Which you can get by giving any of the chat AIs a prompt and tell them to use as many buzzwords as possible. The results are basically what you'd be looking for. Heck, you could probably feed it the dialogue and then ask it to replace with buzzwords.

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This one really rubbed me the wrong way. No, that girl's enthusiastic jargon and her ability to go to classy coffee shops her fellow temp can't afford are not pleasant and refreshing, they're frigging annoying. She's nice, kind of, but she's making herself part of the problem.

And while having people you like at your workplace helps you survive it, if it's as crappy a workplace as most Japanese office workers have to deal with that is NOT a solution, it's just a pretty nice band aid. Ideally, once you have people in your workplace that you like and trust, you can then start a union (or a socialist revolution :p ) so you can maybe get good actual working conditions. The whole frame of "My work sucks but it's all MY fault for having a bad attitude and I ought to be EMBRACING the unpaid overtime and crappy conditions" is a massive pile of BS.

Sometimes it IS a mentality thing though. It's easy to tell someone to get a different job or to start a union or some other thing, but it's not something everyone can or even wants to do. Sometimes you just gotta make the most of what you have, make it enjoyable in what way you can. (tho ngl the first paragraph here just struck me as 'jealousy' lmao)