Question I tried to ask permission to translate a Series but the author didn't permit it, what would you do?

Discussion in 'Translator's Corner' started by Daike1234, Mar 31, 2016.

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What do you think I should do.

  1. Continue It and Ignore the author

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  2. Stop it

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  3. Convince the author

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  1. estelion

    estelion Magna Cumlord

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    XX先生. Butter him up.

    Actually there are a bunch of really weird things about your Japanese, but I'm a bit busy so I'll leave that to somebody else.

    @Unadon I summon thee.
     
  2. Yukkuri Oniisan

    Yukkuri Oniisan 『Procrastinator Archwizard Translator and Writer』

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    Well... trying to write in a language you don't really familiar is hard... Even I still make a lot of weird English even to this day...
     
  3. estelion

    estelion Magna Cumlord

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    Yeah, don't worry. I suck at writing Japanese too. I always get Yuushin to correct my stuff.
     
  4. Yukkuri Oniisan

    Yukkuri Oniisan 『Procrastinator Archwizard Translator and Writer』

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    Btw.. .where the OP? Wrong time zone?
     
  5. estelion

    estelion Magna Cumlord

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    Who knows. I gave it a try, but I think it's pointless. The people capable of correcting us two could just write a better apology to begin with. If they know the language better, almost certainly they know the culture better.

    Still,
    お返事が遅れて、失礼いたしました。
    日本語はまだまだなので、拙文で申し訳ございません。
    XX先生の許可を求めずに___を翻訳して申し訳ございませんでした。
    でも、XX先生の作が大好きです。ものすごく大好きです。本当に楽しみました。日本語の分からない皆が読めるように翻訳したかったんです。
    ただ、見ての通り、私は所詮アマチュアです。今まで翻訳したことありません。本当に先生の諸説をうまく翻訳できるかどうかは一人で判断できませんでした。英語でのワーディングという問題もありました。
    そういう訳で、他人の意見を得るために、先生の作を少しだけアップしました。大丈夫だと思ってしまいました。まさか怒られるとは思いもいたしませんでした。今もショックです。
    日本人の常識と文化への勉強不足で先生を嫌な思いをさせて、本当に、本当に、申し訳ございませんでした。
     
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  6. sumguy

    sumguy Well-Known Member

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    That's actually a brilliant idea, '3 heads aren't better than a zhuge liang' so to speak. But OP kinda poofed o_O
     
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  7. Daike1234

    Daike1234 THE GUY WHO TRANSLATE WITH THE HELP OF MACHINES

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    OP here, Sorry for the late reply because of being Busy in RL.
    I already replied to the author and after 3 days, he's still not replying.
     
  8. GM_Rusaku

    GM_Rusaku Neptune-sama's Devoted Follower

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    Guess he might got pissed off and just ignore your message.

    Edit: if you like, hosted it in my site, and keep translating it on a different name. (whispering as a devil here wwwwww)
     
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  9. Vrethalya

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    wellp, time to scram and delete all traces (might want to save it in notepad or some sort just in case) of his novel from your blog i guess
    good luck for your next project OP...
    there's still so many novel out there waiting to be translated :X3:
     
  10. Asf

    Asf 《《The aria of souls》》

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    This author got anger management issue. :cool:
     
  11. Daike1234

    Daike1234 THE GUY WHO TRANSLATE WITH THE HELP OF MACHINES

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    Yup, Time to delete some things.
    And yes, I already chose a novel to translate. The novel is banned in Syosetsu and found it in another japanese novel site, The title : Since I was reincarnated as a Pig Duke, I want to say I like you this time ( rough translation)

    豚公爵に転生したから、今度は君に好きと言いたい
     
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  12. Dahksahna

    Dahksahna Kah rahna Dahksahna hahla

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    Awwww it was that I was wondering why there was no update plz plz plz convince author-sama I like that novel
     
  13. Amphidsf

    Amphidsf Realm Razor

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    ... ... You are condoning Genocide right here, you know.
     
  14. AmanoMai

    AmanoMai Well-Known Member

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    having played a game in Japanese server myself, I can testify to that.
    when we do a dungeon raid, for example, alot of Japanese would leave the group up on seeing an English name.
    There's one good reason for that, the majority of English players cannot speak Japanese, and there fore fail to co-operate, causing trouble and disrupting strategies. (also alot of English players are under-geared and under-informed). Which is justified in a sense.
    But also there are some who just hate English players in general.
    Even when I speak in Japanese, some guy would leave when i told him I was a gaijin...

    However, such behavior can be seen anywhere. Say if I play an English server and there's a lv80 chinese player with lv1 equipment who cannot speak english, obstructing the raid and leech... yea I'd leave too.
    There are also players who hate Chinese, Malay, Philipines ....etc players in general.
    It's the internet, there are all kinds.

    Not all Japanese players are like that, of course, I've made a couple of friends. One of them were pretty out-going and always poke fun at how conservative Japanese players are. Another would be very shy and hardly open his mouth.

    Also that hypocrite... darkani..something? who is blaming unrelated authors for events that has long been history. Condemning a country for past crimes while promoting the future crime of another country.
    pretty sure he's Chinese. I've only ever seen that kind of Japan hate from the Chinese (could be wrong here, feel free to correct me)