Re: Scanlation
"John W." wrote ...
> This according to the August Wired magazine's Jargon Watch (p. 34):
>
> "Scanlation: The practice of scanning Japanese manga comic books and
> posting them on hte Web with English translations. Fans say it's not
> piracy because the books aren't printed in English."
>
> Is 'manga comic book' redundant?
You missed 'Japanese'. But it's no more so than an automatic ATM machine.
You just have to bear in mind that 'Wired' is aiming to make this bit of
alleged jargon understandable to people significant numbers of which may
not know that 'Japanese comic' ~= 'manga'.
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