LCD The Novel's Villain

Discussion in 'Latest Chapter Discussion' started by Cosmic_, Dec 21, 2019.

  1. animefan4004

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    Thanks, but I meant contacting the translator themselves. While also having enough street cred that the translator would listen. They take on a lot of novels after all.
     
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    I hope this increase in chapter releases is permanent.
     
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    Well, im grateful that they translate this for us, but sometimes wordexcerpt break down the chapter into 2-3 parts and claim in as one chapter.
    Like the recent one, chapter 20 ish is equivalent to chapter 10/11 in the raw. Why dont just say as chapter 10 part1/2/3.
    But i think this novel is not as profitable as the other i guess.
    I dont know if im right or not, but our JW went to China's gate idk for what reason cause the mtl is super hard to decipher then met the orcs that worship him as Golden Monarch(?) Help hope someone can clear this. Or make spoiler thread hahaha.
     
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    peanutbutter_J Well-Known Member

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    How do editor edit the chapter anyway? Is it checking grammatical error or do you need to understand korean too?
     
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    First of all, readers don’t care. They’re here to immerse themselves in a story. The readers in NU are pretty sophisticated, they understand hyung and uni. So, make it easy enough to read, so they can enjoy the immersion. Transliteration. Transliteration is the key. Rewrite as much as you need to, to convey the author’s intent. Then make it interesting.

    Korean doesn’t distinguish between genders. The subject predicate sentence structure is reversed, viewpoint changes without indicating a transition between speaker 1 and speaker 2. So you need to understand these things.

    So it’s far, far more than grammar check, you don’t need to know the language, but you need to know peculiarities of the language you’re editing. And the best way to learn is to read a lot of well translated and edited novels, and badly translated and edited novels.:D:D:D:D
     
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    Yeah, it sometimes help when you mtl, where they sometimes misinterpret the sfx(?) Too.. for example like dun, the mtl could misinterpret it as money ( trash of count's fam mtl case).
    But most of them are just dont make sense, korean mtl's is the worse thing you can do to your brain hahhaha.

    N your tips as an editor i quite get it hahaha, i probably should apply for chinese's novel editor too.
     
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    Slightly annoyed that the first week after announcing Novel's Villain will change to a weekly release schedule, there is no new chapter. Not the best way to start things off... :blobconfused:
     
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    Been week since last chapter...
    anyone know source to novel in Korean website?
     
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    Did they drop it? Can't seem to find it on their site anymore.
     
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    They were asked to take all of their Korean novels down while negotiating with publishers. It took me a long time to find that info when I was searching for it earlier. :sweating_profusely:

    Of course, if the talks fall through, they might not translate it anymore.:blobexpressionless:
     
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    Any news?
     
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    :blobpeek: Still lurking in 2021 for some news.
     
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    May be we should post again on request pick-up translation
     
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    Go for it!
     
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    Aren't there any official translations of these sort of novels? Do they not sell overseas?
     
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    It's Korean. Korea seems to strangely lag behind in these sorts of places. Their first anime was Tower of God... a popular, but relatively new manhwa (past 2010 at least, I didn't look it up).
     
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    kyoshijiro [Draugr] [Oniric Lord] [Disaster of a human being]

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    I saw a few episodes. I really liked the premise of tower of god but the story itself didn't really attract me after a certain point.
    I was surprised that they changed the needle into a katana in the anime. Kinda disappointed that they didn't keep that part of lore
     
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    I didn't know that, I've only seen a tiny bit of the anime. Tower of God's weapons were 'cool' because of how stupid and unique they were. Did they change all Needles into Katanas?
     
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    Looked like it
     
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