I'm reading 狼と香辛料 now; this is the first book series that I'm reading in Japanese. Sometimes, I look up the official (by Yen Press) English translation and see discrepancies between the translation and what I understand.
Here is an example from the second volume:
「この金と、おそらくあなたが得をすることになった分と、それから、そうですね、信用買いでその倍の買い物をさせてもらえませんか」
The official translation is: "Let's see… I think the amount we agreed to, plus the amount you were going to gain, plus, oh… you'll let us buy double on margin."
As far as I understand the original text, while most of the translation makes sense (though "let's see" should be in the middle), there is one wrong or controversial thing: it should be not "buy double on margin", but more likely "buy on credit for twice that amount". And "that amount" is the original amount + margin. Further in the text, there is an explanation about buying on credit, but the translation misses the mention of credit in this phrase, so it makes the text confusing.
Am I wrong to think so? I found other discrepancies like this before.
by Artgor