That sounds like not calling a cannibal a cannibal because of the negative connotation which the word doesn’t have in cannibal culture
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turdas@suppo.fi 2 weeks agoPart of the job of a translator is to translate cultural nuance, which would be lost here. That’s what makes the translation inaccurate in some contexts.
RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
turdas@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
So small-minded? Let me remind you that “cannibal” is originally an ethnonym coined by Columbus for the native Caribbean people, whose culture certainly had a lot more nuance than just eating people.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
So we need to translate it so the audience undertands there’s a level of implied acceptance of pedos. How’s this?
“I didn’t know you were a redditor”