Discussion [WTD] Disturbing trend to break chapters into parts

Hi.

Is it just me, or there is already a growing disturbing trend to split a chapter into part 1, part 2, part 3, etc?

What I'm more concerned is that, to me it looks to be more of a monetizing - driven move than a translation - quality move.


Any thoughts?

 

wat is WTD....

 

I don't know if it's the fault of the translator though.

Mostly because I just get straight into the chapter. My bad.

 

Most series that break up their chapters still averages the same word count 2-3k as those that do not. It's just a different way to organize for the author and rarely impacts the length of each release.

 

Not really. There are truly some chapters that are either really long or every difficult to translate. By chopping em into parts, the work becomes easier for both the translator and editor to digest.

 

Only time I see is when chapter exceed 2-3k words or the chapter is significantly longer than the one that came before. Nothing wrong with that.

 

is ok for me if they not make it 2 chapter because the cliff.................................

 

What is wtd?
Sometime when the chapter is too long, I really want to split it apart, simply because it would make the workload seems lighter

 

wtd = what the donkey

 

way I see it, a good 90% of us are leechers for some series or another (or all for some) so we really have no say in it as long as its all out when they say, or close to it.

 

Its always been when the chapters are longer than 2-3k

 

Wtd should be want to discuss? Thats my take on it at least.
But well imo its fine and a good trend to create parts of a chapter if the wordcount is just too long (which i have seen) and bad if it doesnt have a good reason ( which is new to me, dont know where @babiyee has that from)

 

WTD

 

As long as they are not translating 1 chapter/week with a novel that has 1k+ chapters its somewhat acceptable

 

WTD = want to discuss.

I see. I'm not familiar with the average of 2000-3000 word counts, although I remember sites like Qidian which host the novels in Chinese do apply some sort of counter of such.

Well, today I guess I learnt something new about the translation scene.

 

wtd = want to discuss... not that it's needed in the Discussion forum, but still, it's not that hard to figure out! anw...

Depends from translator to translator.

For some, the fact that chapters have varying length means that the amount of work they do varies as well. They go by the idea 'i spend 5 hours to translate a chapter of such length, but this next chapter is longer and it will take me 7 hours to translate. It's more work than i signed up for/can afford to spend time on, so i have to split it in two parts or be late with the release date."

For others, they take on works that have ten rows per chapter and if the next chapter has eleven rows, they'll shamelessly go "this chapter has one row extra and that's too much work for free, so give me money."

It changes based on the translator and personality/ability, the work itself and its length or the author's choice of vocabulary. Some works use antiquated poems or expressions, which are hard to recognize and work with if the translator doesn't have an intimate knowledge of the language.

I believe that a few of the translators are actually asking to get payed for what is essentially them learning the language. Well, donations...

As an example, Pumpkin that did the last part of ST mostly started the translation because he was going to get laid off from his job at the time and needed another source of income. I don't know what it's like now, but yeah, he was in it for the money and the readers were ok with it.

It can work if you're honest and reasonable about it, but once you start getting shifty, only idiots and the desperate stick around to throw their wallets at you..

 

Monetizing? Sure.. if you actually pay for the chapters...
Its just a question of wether you want to pay 80$ per 6k chapter or 40$ per 3k part 1 chapter..

 

WTD
When you are trying to type WTF (what the fuck) and instead make a typo and type WTD, thus making (what the duck)
"WTD that is so whack!"

"I don't know WTD happened."

 

Do you have something against it only when a translator does it or also when the author has done it?
I have nothing against it when author does it and translator follows that logic. They might need to stick to a fast paced release schedule, but it wouldn't make sense to release them as different chapters as their content is in the parameters of a chapter not an arc.
On the other hand, when translator starts to turn a chapter into parts when translating, I'd rather they just take their time with translating and release them in one piece, or do like Doulou Dalo's translator did - officially release only full chapters but let die hard readers get access to parts in google drive folder. That is my personal opinion of course.

 

To those website, I just usually read the pdfs