Lost in Auto-Translation

brendan callum writes about his experiences with auto-translation on the online role playing game final fantasy xi for chanpon.org. this summer i had the privilege of playing the massively multiplayer online role playing game, final fantasy xi. one of the things i enjoyed the most about the experience, other than being eaten by dragons and spending hours trying to feed stubborn chocobos, was the game’s linguistic environment. this summer i had the privilege of playing the massively multiplayer online role playing game, final fantasy xi. one of the things i enjoyed the most about the experience, other than being eaten by dragons and spending hours trying to feed stubborn chocobos, was the game’s linguistic environment. ffxi is one of the more recent versions in a long series of japa...