Talk:Crisis!/@comment-24950559-20140524040547/@comment-30764484-20140524062320

Ah, I see how this works. "Pinchi" is "pinch", stolen from English (as with so many other modern Japanese words). It's the "In a pinch" definition though, as in, a tough situation, a crisis, etc, it's not the verb, as in pinching or squeezing something/someone. While it is literally the English word "pinch", that's not the best translation, since most English speakers would assume the second definition when hearing it. The translation team went with "Crisis" because it's much closer to the same meaning as the Japanese title, which is the entire point of a translation.

It's the same reason other loan words aren't translated with the same word. A good example I noticed is "toilet". In one episode Azusa clearly says "toilet", but the subtitles translate it as "bathroom". This is because in English (well, North American English at least) "bathroom" fills the same role in conversation, in that it has the same kind of associations, and word has the same kind of "feeling" to it. That's the best way I can explain it.

Translation is about trying to get the exact same message across, not necessarily the same words.

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