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I deliver your message: in Japanese そのままを、日本語で。
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I am located in Salem, Oregon 
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certified translator
As an ATA Certified Translator from English into Japanese, I will endeavor to translate or interpret the original message faithfully.
Why can't computers translate right?
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Attitudinal Expressions (Taigu-Hyogen)
...a sense of psychological, social distance or closeness held by the speaker toward the listener and third persons referred to in conversation (Ide, 1982, P.111).
Involved here is linguistic variation along the degrees or levels from formal to informal, respectful to familiar, polite to intimate, humble to arrogant, indirect to blunt, etc. The same information takes different forms of taigu hyogen in accordance to variable conversational settings. (W. B. Gudykunst)
...more on Google Book Search refers to a wide category of linguistic devices to express a sense of psychological, social distance or closeness... -
A Japanese translator must grasp the source English text with
attitudinal sensitivity
The resulting Japanese output can unwittingly present itself to be situationally insensitive to the Japanese target audience.
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Japanese is a
pro-drop language
The pronouns in the English translations (it, I, you, etc.) appear nowhere in the Japanese sentences, but are understood from context. If nouns or pronouns were supplied, the resulting sentences would be grammatically correct but unnatural.
...more on Wikipedia - Translation: Getting it Right
a downloadable publication from ATA
- word order differences