User:PsiSeveredHead/Translation Conventions

Just saw this advice section on another wiki about how to translate terms properly. A lot of people have read fan-translations rather than the official thing. That site does fan translations rather than the real thing, but it can point to areas where consistency is needed. (Wikipedia generally translated more accurately, listing when a term differs between the novels and the anime.)


 * Data Overmind (novel) or Data Integration Thought Entity (anime)
 * "Kikan", "機関" = 'Agency' (novels) or 'Organization' (anime)
 * "Literature Club" not "Literary Club"
 * "Class 1-5" not "Fifth Class" etc
 * "Shinjin"= Celestial (novel) or Shinjin (anime)
 * "Heisa Kuukan"= "Closed space"
 * "SOS DAN", "SOS団" = "SOS Brigade"
 * Ryoko Asakura, not Ryouko.
 * The Computer Research Society (President)


 * Student Council Chairman (has this been official translated?)
 * Kuyō Suō (has this been officially translated?)
 * Kyōko Tachibana (has this been officially translated?)
 * "広域帯宇宙存在" = Macrospatial Quantum Cosmic Existence (not officially translated)
 * Also know as: "天蓋領域" [Tengai Ryōiki] = Sky Canopy Dominion (not officially translated)