Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26140824-20150228110725/@comment-26140824-20150308042806

Regarding 'the edge' thing ya'll are going on about on Hazama's page, 境界 (kyoukai) the Japanese word for The Boundary, is very close to 限界 (genkai), which can be translated as Boundary, Border, Limit, and Edge. if there was any reference in English BlazBlue to 'The Edge', it is almost certain that -that- is what it is referring to. In fact, if Hazama's codename is a reference to anything within the boundary, it would have to be the way through which he escaped or siphoned power from the Boundary: The Loophole (狭間, Hazama). A narrow space or small gap in The Boundary. Does this make sense?

The problem with story-defined nouns (The Boundary, The Azure) that are the same as everyday words (border, blue) is that, when translating, it may not always be clear which one is being referred to. In Japanese, "It's The Boundary again" or "The Boundary, too" is the spelled and pronounced and punctuated exactly the same was "I'm at my limit!" or "I can't take any more!". These are by far the most common errors in translation, in my experience, because they are errors of context and require that the translator be intimately familiar with the source material, and not every translator can be that invested in every project (or probably should be, as they risk losing objectivity).

And it's not important, but I'm a 29 year old woman who isn't interested in starting a fight on a video game web page with 15 year old boys. I don't mean to impugn anyone's character, I was a teenager once too and I'm not implying that you have nothing productive to offer. But if there is any kind of animosity going on here between administrators or moderators or whatever the heck wikia calls their "people in charge" (what does a bureaucrat do...), I'd just as soon stay out of it.

Also all of these 'kudos' sending people, why not add some more voices to the discussion? Or is that what the kudos is for, tacit agreement? I don't get how the community works here, please excuse me.