Current Events > is "it can't be helped" real english or just some weeb translation cra

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because thats the only time i see it being used

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it's "real" English, sunshine.
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...It's a fairly common phrase.
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it's both

it's a valid engish sentence that does mean something. It's also a commonly memed translation for a certain stock phrase in japanese ( ). The phrase can mean a lot of things depending on context but in the early era of anime/manga translations it tended to just get blanket converted to "it can't be helped". It still does sometimes but probably not as much, and honestly the meme status of it has sort of poisoned it as a valid translation option so I think most actual good translators would try to avoid it at all costs
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If its spoken in the English language, its real English

But its also just a common phrase across mediums and disciplines sooo...?
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That is a grammatically correct English phrase that I have heard spoken before.
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kirbymuncher posted...

it's both

it's a valid engish sentence that does mean something. It's also a commonly memed translation for a certain stock phrase in japanese ( ). The phrase can mean a lot of things depending on context but in the early era of anime/manga translations it tended to just get blanket converted to "it can't be helped". It still does sometimes but probably not as much, and honestly the meme status of it has sort of poisoned it as a valid translation option so I think most actual good translators would try to avoid it at all costs

thanks!!!!!

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