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Anon · 2mo

Hi, we can't thank you enough for your translations! I'm curious, why the choice of any Italian words? Conoscete la lingua?

You're welcome! We don't actually speak any Italian ourselves. The Italian words really are part of the event titles since MHYK likes to incorporate foreign words into their event titles. Words that are in Japanese, we tl to English. Words in another language... well, we do our best to guess what the word is lol.

By coincidence, we just happened to have worked on events that used Italian words! Off the top of my head, there's other events like Bride '22 that used French (chéri) in title. We're just using what we think is the most appropriate word that matches the katakana (because tl can vary, and it's just our educated guess based on the event themes and motifs). For example, we used noce for walnut instead of noche for night in Vday '24 because the event logo and fruit artwork looks like a walnut, and there's nothing in the event about night.

tidbit: seems like Italian might be one of the most common foreign languages that the writers/c0ly picks for the titles

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