Robots and super-computers in Japanese fiction have a tradition of speaking in a rather stilted, polite and logical manner that is most times rendered fully in the angular katakana syllabary which is used to write loan words, foreign personal names and in some cases slang and difficult words that use

When the golden android C-3PO introduces himself to Luke Skywalker in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, he uses a rather bizarre compound noun, one of a long series consisting of equally misused terms (an idea for a later blog entry): Already from the start we get the impression

Smeagol/Gollum from Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien Trahald, as he is called by his Westron name, or Smeagol in English, as well as Gollum as his other half is known as is a tortured hobbit from the LOTR, whose prologned usage to the Master Ring

Keigo or Polite speech is the Japanese concept of usually three registers: Humble speech, Reverential speech and Respect speech, common for these is that certain suplitive grammatical traits, i.e. substituting one form for the other of a word when it takes different tenses, such as with English go in

We often hear the commonly discussed point of contention in regards to subtitles being less accurate, precise or not getting the whole gist of what the original cartoon, film or documentary was conveying. This is especially frequent in regards to the translation of Japanese cartoons, anime, and Japanese comics, manga.