Talk:Bonus Star Requirements/@comment-1731233-20150228054456

I suggest the removal of romanization of Japanese. I checked and see that it was done by Google Translate so there are stuff like 以下 which was not romanized at all (it is supposed to be romanized as "ika").

When I first entered the different languages, I made sure that they are consistent with one another. For "Beat a Race Time of", every other language was written in the same format. You can see that for the Korean translation, I did not type "xx:xx.xxx초의 레이스 타임 경신", but I typed "의 레이스 타임 경신" instead. You can see that I purposely omitted the 초 word because it means "seconds", while "의" is a possessive that follows after a noun and should not be a standalone. In this case "의" means of, so by omitting "초", I made the sentence to follow the format of "Beat a Race Time of" and not "Beat a Race Time of xx:xx.xxx".

That is why if you are going to change the format of the Japanese one, you'll have to change the format for everything in the whole page. Inconsistency will make it confusing. Only the white parts (as you can see that the requirements are often written with a white part which is uses consistently, while the orange part varies and gives you a number/measurement unit). The format used in this page is that only the white parts are translated. The only exception is Korean which has everything orange because of the grammatical structure. By removing "초", I have essentially made it to be like the other translations of the same thing in other languages.

You might be confused by the Chinese translation as well. Only the simplified Chinese version contains xx:xx.xxx because it was unavoidable. As you can see - 打破xx:xx.xxx的比赛纪录 - the time is given in the middle of the sentence rather than at the end. Unlike other languages, it is not saying "Beat a race time of: xx:xx.xxx seconds" - which would be what the Korean version would be like if translated in English. The "的比赛纪录" part at the end is NOT seconds or any measurement unit. It is part of the sentence and if translated literally, it will become ”Beat xx:xx.xxx's Race Record". I have excluded the orange parts (number+measurement unit [some languages have them]), but I could not exclude "的比赛纪录" because it does not follow the format of the orange parts. This is why Chinese is the only exeception to this.

So BeachSideRAGE, what would you like to do? Would you like to romanize every single language - Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Russian - that does not use romanian alphabet? Also, would you like to change the format of every single sections to include the measurement unit and requirement? Like changing Drift Distance back to Drift Distance : # m, or changing Flat Spins to Flat Spins: #? The whole page has to be consistent so if you are not intending to do the above changes, then the romanization for the Japanese and change in format for "Beat a Race Time of" would be removed.

It is really tiring to just type the other languages out, especially Thai and Arabic which I am not familiar with at all. The actual languages I know fluently are Chinese and English, while I understand Japanese and have learned both French and Korean before. I can not romanize everything else nor do a very accurate translation for the langauges. If you are intending to change the format, then I suggest you to find the people fluent in those specific languages to romanize and translate for you.