Thread:Gracedharperd/@comment-4436931-20190411034141/@comment-37883549-20190707193006

Hey Angelo, I have a question about one of the translations on the Terminology page, namely "Witch Genes (魔女因子)"

Is it confirmed somewhere that these are actually genes? As far as I know, the concept of "因子" is more abstract, something like "Factors", i.e. something that may comprise a building block, but may not necessarily be a gene in itself. I would have thought if they were specifically genes, they'd be written either as "魔女遺伝因子" or "魔女遺伝子", or something similar.

For example, I believe: 発癌因子 would be typically translated to "Carcinogen" in English (or Cancer Causing Factor/Thing), rather than "Carcinogenic Gene".

What are your thoughts? Perhaps this is something about the language I haven't grasped yet.

Edit: Forgot to point out that YenPress' translation uses "Factor" as well.