Jocelyne Allen

Words I Hate Translating Part 89: 素直
I wish this word would be what it means and slip obediently into English for me.

If it means Eguchi will cease torturing me, I regret nothing!

I would join you in those next lives! Analyzing language is basically translation but without the hard part of making something readable in English

A shih tzu with her tongue hanging out and a fairly empty look on her face has her fur on her head pulled up into a little ponytail above her eyes. She has a person's body, shown from about the waist up, dressed in fancy white clothes that look they're made out of silk and satin, strings of pearls draped around her neck and a diamond brooch on her chest near the bottom of the painting. It's all very realistic looking and giving noblewoman gets her portrait painted.

Reminded that my sister had a portrait done of her old lady dog, and it is the most amazing dog painting of all time.

Hit me up if you have any questions about this gig! I’m still a part of CB/KCB but am focusing on other projects for a bit.

This is a great opportunity to take charge and shape the direction of a fast-growing and dynamic part of this Eisner Award-winning comix news site.

I love this!!

Previous pet word 直後 still dots these pages, but has clearly fallen out of favour.

Fun thing about working on a series/artist for a long time is you notice when the artist suddenly takes a shine to a phrase or word. Current project is using そのつもりで見ると constantly, a phrase the author has never used before this volume. #AmTranslating

耳にタコができる is just such a great expression. Getting calluses in your ears because people keep telling you the same annoying thing over and over and over.

Oh, thank you for this! I didn't know about Hello, Hello! I'll have to hunt it down and read it. I love her style in Twinkle, but I'd be very curious to see her work during this transition period.

Yeah, I'm prepared for the horizontal text to show a different language being spoken, but this was same font in a book with only Japanese speakers and no previous horizontal text, so it really threw me for a loop. Artists out here making our jobs harder

I love it!

In case you were not aware there was a mystery to be solved:

The mystery of the smelly darkness has been solved!!

Oh, excellent! Thank you for this! Now I can give my nibling a proper answer.

Book cover featuring the text, Jon Mitchell - Why are we in Okinawa? A History of Violence and Bloomsbury. The off-white cover features a sky blue obi belt which includes a swallow, red hibiscus and two jet fighters.

Yesterday, my publisher @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social revealed the cover for my new book, "Why are we in Okinawa? A History of Violence." Feeling super honoured that artist, Yuken Teruya, designed an obi wrap for it. Release date set for February 2026!

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Looks great! I can't wait to read it!!

Toronto friends! Cool event if you are free tomorrow! In-person attendance is full, but you can still sign up to watch online!

I have a question! We saw demon slayer infinity castle and the subtitles were normal and didn’t translate the song at the end. But some theatres did and it created the unfortunate sentence “from the smelly darkness” …. Is there a word that would likely have been mistaken for smelly??

My nibling coming to me with the important translation questions.

Ano Ne: Machiko Kyo As always, when my life grows too frantic with translation and interpretation and long plane trips across the ocean, it is my noodle-ly rambling about books that suffers. I’ve been reading books th…

If you need more information before you commit your reading time to this treasure, I wrote about it a few years back!

French readers! You are so lucky! You can (and should!) finally read this great book by Kyo Machiko!

On a painted blue background, a pale face, shadowed in blue, surrounded by characters that represent humanoid species.

Today on Okazu – They Were 11!

Moto Hagio’s award-winning science fiction epic is out now in a beautiful omnibus edition from Denpa Books!

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Love when an artist suddenly switches from vertical text to horizontal, and I'm left struggling to parse てん！！っるっなすら for a full minute before I catch on. #AmTranslating

I have a question! We saw demon slayer infinity castle and the subtitles were normal and didn’t translate the song at the end. But some theatres did and it created the unfortunate sentence “from the smelly darkness” …. Is there a word that would likely have been mistaken for smelly??

My nibling coming to me with the important translation questions.

Crunchyroll has always sucked but choosing to partner with an Israeli company for their subs in 2025 sure is A Choice

Hmm. An interesting point. My subconscious is clearly slacking on the job.

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Canadian pals. Read this short thread. Take some of the actions suggested at the end. Get yourself informed about what's in this bill.

耳にタコができる is just such a great expression. Getting calluses in your ears because people keep telling you the same annoying thing over and over and over.