Talk:Science Card/@comment-25366217-20140909102126/@comment-17760674-20140910042628

I'm not sure if it's so much a translation error as simply an assignment error. The translations themselves for the cards, story, etc. (but not the news orz) are usually really good, often with colloquial English phrases. There is gender confusion sometimes, though. So I'm led to believe that the translations are done like this:
 * 1) Person A writes the description in the original language (Chinese or Japanese, not sure).
 * 2) Person B translates the description. Might not be completely fluent in English; might only have professional proficiency.
 * 3) Person C edits the description to flow smoothly in English. Should be fluent in or a native speaker of English, but might not have much knowledge of the original language. Most of the gender confusion occurs on the more ambiguous-looking cards, right? Milky Way, Wind Weasel, Cat Sith, Jubei, etc. (they might be obviously male or female to some people, but I mean relatively ambiguous compared to other cards--like for example, no gender confusion for Red Riding Hood or Brutus, right? :P)
 * 4) Person D goes into the database and attaches the English description to a card. I'm thinking that the description wasn't already attached to the card for some reason (maybe Person C edits the descriptions elsewhere and then sends the final versions to Person D, who knows), which would mean that Person D might slip up in updates sometimes since the descriptions would have to be updated by a human, idk

I don't know if this is how it works, of course xD This is just what I believe after seeing the really nice story and daemon description translations with the occasional gender errors and the mismatch error above. (Have there been any other mismatch errors? I can't remember any off the top of my head.)

tl;dr

See first sentence. :P