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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰

@katrinal10n.bsky.social

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Game Localization Producer & JPN-ENG Specialist! Subs for Sentai, Manga for 7 Seas. Prev. SEGA, Funimation. She/her. Opinions are mine! I ♥ translation theory. https://katrina-l-translation.online/ ローカライズ専門家! ( ｀・∀・´)ﾉﾖﾛｼｸ

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · Oct 28

やっほー！ I'm Katrina: professional translator and localization producer! 💙
I specialize in everything audiovisual: movies, TV, anime, manga, and games. 📺🎮
I love translation theory and linguistic analysis -- check out the replies to this post for links to my professional talks and short essays! 👇🔗

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 10h

and in my L2!

Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 10h

today I successfully bought and scheduled installation for three air conditioners for my new apartment

and i asked all the good questions about models and features and scored a good deal!!

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 17h

Finally, an actually hot take!

(I understand your reasoning but can’t find it within me to love them)

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 20h

in other news, I am slowly developing the ability to ask dumb questions to make sure I understand stuff instead of being too embarrassed and stumbling

Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 20h

Me: Man, I’m such an imposter. Doing all this formal stuff (government paperwork, moving legal forms, bank and credit stuff) in Japanese proves I am a hack.

Also Me: have you ever translated an anime novel or game character negotiating a phone contract

Me: oh.

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chris2k @chris2k.bsky.social · 1d

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 1d

me on my first day trying to say the population of Los Angeles

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 1d

me at the store writing it out then counting the places like a child

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 1d

trying to convert big numbers to 万 is killing my brain

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 1d

zero idea if there is any interest in de in japan (it does have a localization) but likely going to have to save that for 2027 qq

Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 1d

haven’t even gotten a table for my new crafting room but I’m already putting together more solid plans for my ALA cosplay

i want to work on the disco elysium one but all my electronics won’t be shipped here until after ALA 😭

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 1d

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 12d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 12d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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J-E Media Translation Course@JVTA（日本映像翻訳アカデミー） @jemediatranslation.bsky.social · 1d

Oops, timecode was wrong🫠

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 2d

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 1d

To give the original thread credit, I don’t believe it was done maliciously, but out of ignorance at the time.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

One of the things that happened is that if you were Chinese and got here early enough, your family members would have different legal last names--that wouldn't even read the same to white people here--because there was no standard romanization.

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 1d

My great-grandfather’s last name (Greek) was romanized for him at the time of immigration. It’s different from how some of my distant family romanized theirs, so it’s been tough for my family to build their family tree.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

Lots of us have great-grandparents names who were absolutely changed when they came here, and when people say otherwise, they're assuming your great-grandparents name was in the Roman alphabet.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1d

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Laura Innocenti @laurainno.bsky.social · 2d

Use the Excel sheet

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers @fromthevoid.net · 2d

"Translate it as is"

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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 2d

Machine translation, post-edit.

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I'm correcting your grammar"

Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 3d

No fee, I'm afraid.

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 3d

do you throw particularly good mailing boxes on the floor for your cats for a day before you put them in the recycling or are you a non cat owner or an absolute psycho who hates fun

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 4d

it’s raining in tokyo, but not the fun kind of rain, the “just wet and misty enough for an umbrella but you’re still going to get damp because the breeze blows the tiny droplets everywhere” kind of

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 6d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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