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Why translators have to reinvent jokes
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Puns are the absolute bane of international publishing. When a Japanese writer includes a clever joke based on a specific kanji character, the English localization team has to completely scrap it and invent a brand new, usually terrible, joke in its place. It takes immense creative energy to ensure a character remains equally unfunny across multiple continents.
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