To be fair, it shouldn't be a battle of credentials. People with credentials can still say stupid, stupid shit about Japanese language and culture - witness suzukaze and my favorite overhyped academic John Whittier Treat - but one of the points that I was trying to make in that post was that, really, it's important to recognize the limitations of your own knowledge, regardless of your credentials. And it's asinine for somebody who admits to not being fluent in Japanese to slam a professional translator for doing a "half-assed job," being inaccurate, being misleading, having a shipping bias, etc.

I don't think that this is a complicated point, but it managed to completely sail over both of their heads.