Why is it, that the grammar and translation quality in many novels nose dive after 40 chapters?
Thank you for explaining, it definitely makes more sense.
I’m a bit lost with the translation of the last half of this paragraph:...
The pride I feel when I realise I can recognise and understand more and more characters when reading raws.
I just wanna read and ignore life - but the MTL posted is so unreadable that now I have the Raws trying to edit it just so I can read it.
I’m enjoying a novel, but the MTL translation is so bad T-T do I translate myself or just read on. Choices, choices.
Thank you for all the advice, the article and examples. It’s educated me and opened my view on translating, and given me a little bit more...
I was wondering others opinions on filling out sentences when translating. When translating I want to stay as true to the original text as I...
Am I the only one who falls in love with a novel but when re-reading a few years down the line and it fails to live up to your memory of it?
When a secondary romance ovetakes the main romance halfway through the novel and theres even 200 chapters of an extra story at the end (ᗒᗣᗕ)
Most definitely!
@Bad Storm ty, We can but hope. I hope next year is better for you too!
This year has been exhausting
This is it! Thank you so much!
I have a vague memory of a novel I had been reading last year, but paused as I was waiting for chapters to be updated and over the months I forgot...
When bored the answer is obviously to make an airtable of all the novels you’ve read just because NU doesn’t have some of them listed.
Thank you so much for the advice. Sometimes I find myself only translating what I see, worrying that if I embellish it’ll lose its original...
Thank you!
哪怕穿著樸素，可剛剛哭過的臉龐帶著紅意，大眼楮水潤而靈動，怎麼看怎麼令人心動。 I’ve very roughly translated the above paragraph as - Even though she was plainly dressed, her face had...
My English isn’t Englishing when translating today - either that or my brain is malfunctioning as I read it. Cause it ain’t making sense.
Separate names with a comma.