Board Thread:Wikia Discussion/@comment-25683568-20150318062713/@comment-26114359-20150711000512

Uhh no actually, the English military terms were named exactly as they are based from the Japanese text, from the Japanese itself down to its characteristics. That's why if I wanted to go full mil, I would've suggested changing the 12.7cm cannons to 5"/50 or something related which I did not. The point is sticking as close as the their military terms as possible whilst still using layman terms based from the texts and descriptions. However that doesn't mean you have to literally translate it word for word. That's not how translations work and never will be. That's why the suggestions I made were made close to what literature uses, not to just what google translate or some dictionary spouts, i.e. the deteriorate shell because look at it closely; what does the deteriorate stand for? Deteriorate what? At least Depleted sounds better as it describes the shell better, unlike Deteriorate which sounded awkward. Plus, players with at least have some military knowledge will instantly assume the Depleted Shell probably works the same way as real life depleted uranium shell, just that it's using another material than uranium, adding some more lore to enemy weapons. Not only did it manage to sound better and make sense, it actually still ended up being creative without butchering the original Japanese text. That's how translation works. You find similar terms and put them together and while it may not be literally the same, the context and the meaning is still there.

But anyway I will continue translating stuff as close as to their military terms. I won't be editing the titles themselves. However, I will use a different term, i.e. the more proper term when translating the item description itself and it's up to the community which one would they want.

Please no more translations like "Quick Reaction bla bla bla" for Kidou Butai though and such.