Talk:Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace/@comment-7888499-20130518221416

Edit 22:32, May 18, 2013 (UTC): This VN is currently entitled "Darling of Loving Vows" on the front page of this wiki, and this article was originally "Darling of Marital Woes", which is an out-and-out mistranslation as far as I can tell. I changed it in this article to "...Happily Loving Logic" due to the wordplay. However, if you disagree with the change or have another, probably better translation for the title feel free to join in on discussing it or add it! :)

"Marital Woes" does add a sense of humor, just as the original Japanese pun does, albeit humor of a different sort... Though perhaps fitting to the story, except that Okabe isn't married.

Edit 02:37, May 19, 2013 (UTC): Okay, so after awhile I still wasn't happy with the translation of the title. It seemed stilted, and I realized that depending on one's intonation "Happily Loving Logic" could be read as the act of loving logic instead of the logic of happily loving. It doesn't seem natural. In the end I settled for "Darling of Happy-Love Logic". I think that way we get the oxymoron of logic and reason not going well with love usually that, to me, is present in the original Japanese. We also get the lovebird connotation.

However, my Japanese is pitifully small and passive. If you think it should be something like "Darling of Loving Vows" or something else, please, change it to that. I only feel attached to the idea that it shouldn't be "Darling of Marital Woes". What is your opinion on this?

Edit 10:44, May 19, 2013 (UTC): Boy, am I being frustratingly indecisive. I went back and looked at the history for the main page of this wiki. It was Reading Steiner who first linked this VN as "...Marital Woes" later he corrected himself and changed the link name to "...Loving Vows". Reading Steiner seems to understand Japanese superbly most of the time and has a much better feel for it than me who's just picked up bits and pieces. That's why I decided to change the title again to his correction. Still, I think this is rather open to discussion in case anyone has another interpretation. Of course, this title hasn't been officially translated yet, and most websites choose to just leave it as Hiyokurenri, because it is a difficult pun.