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Originally Posted by truehappiness
Hm, I looked up "to soothe / soothed" and it's なだめる / 和らげる in Japanese, hm...
I think "stopped" would be best since that's what she actually said in her lyrics (止められ), so it'll be up to whoever's reading to interpret it as soothing/calming the anger of the world, you know?
I sort of would rather like to have translations that pretty much say exactly what Ayu's trying to tell us so that what she's saying doesn't get lost/mixed up in the process of translating.
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Fair enough! I don't know why I didn't stop
(lulz /dodges bricks) to consider the
strength/force/impact of 止められ as opposed to 和らげる -- toss that up to me being forgetful, I guess!
I prefer as close to the original phrasing/words as possible as well, and I think masa does a great job of making them flow nicely from Japanese into English and still having them be poetic
I guess I'm just letting my flowery synonym side take over x_x Apologies!