Tanaka no Atelier ~Nenrei Equal Kanojo Inaireki no Mahoutsukai~ - Ch. 3 - Easy-mark

[aberdeus]

@SGR well I'm Mexican so I dunno what you mean since I never said anything about which country I'm from and the other guy mentioned the UK

Nice way to show your own bigotry tho you clearly don't Ike white people and assumed I was one

 

[rebel16]

@aberdeus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

Some countries use periods for the decimal separator, some use commas. Per international organizations that set and manage standards, both usages are accurate.

 

[aberdeus]

@rebel16 oh i know Latin american countries do that but i prefer that if your translating to English use English writing conventions, which include punctuation.

 

[welcome2atlantis]

From orcs directly to dragon, huh... I have to question MC's sanity.

 

[Ovdose]

@aberdeus
Nah, you're the retard here. Most of the world does it the way I described it. And most companies in the world still use the "low tier trash software" Windows Excel for their record keeping so I don't understand why you think only people outside your oh-so-superior country use it.

Also... you're actually complaining about me using a condescending tone with you? Lmao, the only reason I even bothered to write my first reply to you is because of your obnoxious my-way-is-the-only-way attitude. You've been condescending ever since your very first post in this comments section so you have no room to complain.

 

[rebel16]

@aberdeus There are also many European countries that use the comma format, and there isn't just one "English". There are many dialects and variations, some of which have standards of use that are very different from others (Indian [the country] English vs. Western US English comes to mind). The TLer is clearly working in a context that considers that numerical convention to be the appropriate one. Yes, it's jarring when you first come across it, but it's not that difficult to adjust for once you know it's there. I'm solidly in a period-separates-decimals context myself, and I have a decent proofreader's eye, but I didn't even register this usage of a comma as something unusual. Experience and exposure makes it easier.

@Ovdose Usage varies across the world, but I would say it is incorrect to insist that "most" of the world uses the comma as a decimal separator, mainly because China and India - together containing about 35% of the global population - both use the period, and because many widely-used programming languages also use the period as a decimal separator, so if you're programming in those languages, you're using a period regardless of what your country has adopted for use.

 

[aberdeus]

@Ovdose what language are we writing in? what is the manga translated to? now based on that answer what language would any software you mentioned be assumed to be? hence why i said 3rd world country and not first world nor developing countries.

there is a thing known as writing conventions, hence the very thing you said "One of the problems our schools and companies face in modern times is that students and employees attempt to use the British way of separating thousands with commas and marking decimals with periods which breaks the software they're using." is because the British brought forth the English language we are using at this moment so we use period for decimals and commas for thousands, if i suddenly ended all my sentences with commas and said its fine there would be no shortage of people correcting me about it.

as the saying goes when in Rome do as the Romans do, so when speaking English, you use it how its supposed to be used

 

[aberdeus]

@rebel16 there is just one English in writing tho dialects and variations are spoken what is spoken in India is and abomination that came about called pidgin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English-based_pidgins ) which i would not equate to normal English much like if i wanted to learn Russian and could choppily say something that someone that actually speaks Russian could understand but would have some problems with it.

and if you want to point to the Scottish or Irish isles they had different languages prior to the incorporation of English so when translating the form languages to English the punctuation is strange due to keeping the pronunciation the same here's a useful image to illustrate the point ( https://i2.wp.com/starkeycomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Brit-and-Irish-Gif.gif?w=697&ssl=1 )

 

[primrosea]

all this comments about commas and periods like it's a super duper important things meanwhile I don't even remember which convention my country uses lmao

 

[Wolvenworks]

i maintain that the original version was still way better

this really still feels more like a fanfic doujin. is it just me or does it feel kinda rushed?

 

[aberdeus]

To think this all started cause I implied the translator hit the wrong key, you know the key right next to a period on your key board cause it's not like there has never been a letter missing in a word or incorrect punctuation by accident.

 

[higher87]

just to be clear since it seems to have caused a spam of comments, it's not by accident that i used , for the amount. we use , here for math and cash when its not for international /bank purposes, you will find it in news papers, in receipts etc and i only tried to convert it to usd on a whim in case people couldn't relate to yen, never thought it would become such a "big issue"🙄

 

[Daviot]

We're starting to get a bit off-topic here. There's a General Forum available if people wish to further discuss English dialect differences, rather than this chapter thread.
Thanks. 🙂

 

[aberdeus]

to staff i'm sorry for saying the guy could barely add 2 number together.

it's not dialect differences its punctuation, dialect is spoken.

 

[Amizer]

I thought it was 1.3 Billion.


Anyway, just use Yen because currency exchange changes everyday.

 

[Arcedia]

@Wolvenworks I don't know for sure, but perhaps they're rushing through the parts that were covered in the previous adaptation? I'm personally hoping that it's the case, because like you said, the pacing is a bit rushed compared to the previous version.

 

[Wolvenworks]

@Arcedia feels like a travelator that's moving a bit too fast to your liking

 

[MrJohnSmith420]

The girls in this manga all behave like a bitch wtf, but the 2 of em are literally a slut at the beginning lol

 

[phil777]

@boag I do agree that he looks way too handsome for someone considered "ugly" and "unpopular". Even Slow-sama is more popular, and he's a fatty. =/ Like I said in previous chapter, he looks more like your run-of-the-mill isekai MC now, only with a dirty sanchez mustache. In the previous adaptation, his face at least looked a bit more swollen and unshaven, which would (considering beauty standards) not make him that desirable at first.

 

[boag]

@phil777
its part of the charm of the series that he isnt handsome at all and that people judge him as having a flat face.