Board Thread:Wikia Discussion/@comment-25683568-20150318062713/@comment-24980562-20150412232848

Oh gawd, why didn't I find this thread sooner...?!? ༼ つ ಥ_ಥ ༽つ

Anyway, I agree with those translation changes for the most part, especially for the guns since many of them were inconsistently translated as "Gun Mount", just "Gun" or even "Cannon".

Don't know how to feel about changing "Recon" to "Reconnaissance", spelling it out instead of using the widely accepted abbreviation. In the end I most likely wouldn't care either way, but I'd rather have it short, so that's probably just my own preference.

As for the whole "Kai" thing, I'd prefer using actual numbers instead of just transliterating the Japanese pronunciation (e.g. Kai Ni --> Kai-2; Kai San --> Kai-3; Kai Yon --> Kai-4). I prefer writing it with a hyphen. But yet again, this is just a personal preference, though using numbers would probably be more beneficial for readers who don't know Japanese numbers and therefore wouldn't understand what "Ni", "San" or "Yon" means.

However, I honestly don't get why you'd translate any instance of 号 as "No.", especially in the case of radars. It struck me as somewhat odd when I saw that part in the list of suggested changes for the first time, so I looked up how sources unrelated to KanColle name them and asked some people here who know more about this topic, and I got the pretty much unanimous answer that it's supposed to be "Type".

I know that your goal was for the translations to be closer to the original Japanese names and wording, but that doesn't mean you have to ignore Western naming conventions.

And sorry in advance if any of these points have already been addressed, I couldn't be bothered to read literally everything in this thread because I'm a lazy fuck and it's getting late... _(:3」∠)_