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whenever i read a marauders with badly translated french/spanish/italian etc i don’t really care bc i know the author tried their best, and it gets the point across that such character can speak such language anyway, and it just doesn’t impact the story. whatever.
HOWEVER, if you’re gonna make a character use a pet name from a language you don’t speak, please look up a list of pet names from that language rather than translating a pet name directly from english. not only does it NOT work, it’s also sometimes very bizarre.
for exemple, there was this one fic where sirius wanted to say ‘babygirl’ in italian and the author translated it to ‘bambino’… which means child/little boy 😭