Birds and Bees

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BUR #60644 is pending approval.

convert pool:3238 -> sex_ed

This pool is meant to cover the relatively objective concept of characters giving others "the talk", or explaining how sex works...Which we already have a tag for, sex ed.

The problem here is that this pool aims to cover two related but still distinct concepts, the other being someone going "where do babies come from?", which is a scenario I imagine people would want to search for on its own. I'm starting this with a basic conversion, but I think it might be best to split this pool into the two concepts: one goes in sex ed, the other goes into whatever tag we end up with for people wondering where babies come from.

I don't think the pool should be converted as is because there's varying concepts, I think 3.

There's simply asking the question, funnier when it's from an innocent soul. (post #818275, post #1256264, post #1064875)

There's explaining what sex is, which would be sex ed. (post #334097, post #584084, post #1880110)

And then there's the great misunderstandings or cluelessness on how sex works. (post #1849683, post #1599082, post #315157)

Might be some misc stuff too and some overlap.

I asked on the discord for some names for the misunderstanding part but we were ironically kinda clueless. sex_stupidity, sex_uneducated, innocent_ignorance and sexual_innocence were what we spitballed.

Yeah I agree personally. If I vote on my own BURs, I'd actually meh this one because it doesn't neatly convert, which is a huge problem.

My suggestion for the first one is where do babies come from?, which is a bit of a mouthful but I think works the best for its intentions.

As for situation three...I like sexual innocence, but I'm not sure how I feel about have "sex" in the name of a more comedic and not typically sexual tag like this, as it could send the wrong impression of what it's even for. Though considering the first example alludes to the act of sex in all but name, I suppose it could be fine?

I guess alternatively, it could be called something like pregnancy misunderstanding, going by these examples, but I'd need to look at some of these posts before actually suggesting the name and making sure it'd work.

NiceLittleDan said in forum #444094:

I'm working slowly on some favgroups. Given I have to read comic pages it's taking a little while so bear with me. It's also potentially a little messy but I'll explain once I'm done.

No worries, take your time. I'm too busy right now to do it myself lol.

That's great, that means we have safe conversions to work with for these concepts while we brainstorm tag names. Thanks a lot!

Alas, I am not putting in a massive translation request just to sort out the remainder. Might not be a bad idea to have a favgroup for those on-hand to sort were we to nuke the pool. I can read a little Japanese at least, so I guess I could look at the missing ones and see if I can determine anything.

NiceLittleDan said in forum #444595:

favgroup #56708 has all the non categorised posts favgroup:56708 translation_request would be those that require translation to determine where they fit if anywhere.

post #11270825, post #10815239 is favgroup #56447; post #8699860, post #8237255, post #5793215, post #2025007 is favgroup #56527 (though post #5793215 and post #2025007 might belong to favgroup #56527, I'm not really sure where the line is drawn); post #8700665 is favgroup #56523. post #10996024 is just Aru misunderstanding that the device is a shoulder massager.

Went through all the posts tagged translation request and did my best to piece together what I think the correct favgroup is. Keep in mind that there's a reason I don't translate much, so anyone with more understanding than me should feel free to correct me on anything.

As there's only, what, eight posts, I just broke them all down here.
  • post #10996024 - The joke is based around someone using the hitachi magic wand for its intended purpose as advertised...Aka as a massager, which all the other characters here seem to be painfully aware of the fact that it's actual, more common purpose, is well...as a sex toy lol. Not sure where that should go, as that's less someone being ignorant about sex, and more someone not knowing something is being used for sex. I guess it can go in the "sexual innocence" pile?
  • post #8700665 - Someone thinking the stork theory is where babies come from.

post #8699860 - Fine here seems to be asking her Trainer where children come from, I think? I don't know exactly what どうやったらできる translates to exactly. That or what do babies come out of? I think this one is a "where do babies come from?" post no matter what the exact answer is.

  • post #8237255 - Guy thinks there are multiple ways to make babies, apparently. The comic ends on impending sex ed (as the couple yeeted the responsibility of correcting the misunderstanding onto someone else), but it'd probably be better off in the "how do baby work?" pile.
  • post #5793215 - This one is really text dense, though the commentary states Tachyon is trying to explain the taboo around the "Where do babies come from?" question to her children. If there's any post I want double-checked by someone better at reading Japanese than me, it's this one, but right now I think it's a mix of sex ed and the "how do babies work?" piles.
  • post #2025007 - Guy inquiring about how shipgirl birthdays work, which naturally leads into how they are "constructed". Could either be sex ed or "how do babies work"?

Dunno what to do with the rest of the remainder. Guess we should focus on splitting the pool into its respective tags and deal with the remainder later, especially since we got a favgroup for them now.

NiceLittleDan said in forum #444713:

Added to their respective favgroups. Thanks both. For post #8699860, I'm adding it to how does xxx work? based on this translation.

Yeah if a translator translated it like that, I'd assume it'd belong in that favgroup lol. No problem!

I take it we're safe to BUR these now that we got the most notable gray zones out of the way. The names could still use work tho, but getting the pool converted into tags is the highest priority right now.

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