Discussion Wuxia World "Official" Translations are Not Of Quality

Discussion in 'Novel General' started by smileyface, Jun 8, 2017.

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  1. strayCat0

    strayCat0 What are you doing right now?

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    ...I forgot.
     
  2. Lisstr

    Lisstr Fujoshi ☆ Lurker

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    Wasn't there some qidian TL that started a tread a while ago, he admitted that he's translation sucked hard and still got paid. He was even proud of that.

    So your talk about quality... Just where did you pick that up? From qidians as*?
     
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    Miri-Bell Semi-crazy Magic Cat

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    O_O I am not impressed by this, especially considering the fact that I've seen professional translations that are worse than fan tls.
     
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    SoulZer0 Heaven Refining

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    RIP OP.
     
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    Rreelentless Captain Sheriff Admiral Colonel Major General

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    There's more than 1 side to every story everyone just remember that
     
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  6. MothEmperor07

    MothEmperor07 Well-Known Member

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    Finally someone who can actually retort with some knowledge.I am just bitching here lol.
     
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  7. Myriadfold

    Myriadfold 『Silkmaid』『Ishhara's Devotee』『Daoist』『WW Vet.』

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    just face it, you have no supporters in this because you are a blind man complaining that the colour of the paint on the wall is too garish and "hurts the eyes".

    in your opinion, you probably assume that anything less than perfect is not worthy of sale, by that logic any celebrity who isn't A-list should just donate their time for free because they are "too shit" to get paid for what they did provide over what they didn't. you pretty much look down on the 99% of humanity that isn't the top 1% for being too "sub-standard" to contribute anything worthwhile.

    if you wanted to make a statement worthy of valid consideration, don't put WW and QI on the same level of the scale, and don't do it with such a blatantly formed clone account. make these statements on the account you actually frequent NUF with. Don't try and use "internet anonymity" as a shield to spew foul mannered garbage. the rest of us here actually have the guts needed to say our piece where people can identify us.
     
  8. strayCat0

    strayCat0 What are you doing right now?

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    Tinfoil hat! Tinfoil hat! Selling tinfoil hats!

    Do you want to become like this OP? To be brainwashed by those evil organizations who does machinations behind the shadow?!

    Now, buy my tinfoil hats! With just wearing this seemingly common hat, you can avoid them!
     
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  9. smileyface

    smileyface New Member

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    Funny thing you mentioned that, and that's exactly the stance of some translators, because they don't look at the tone nor nuance of the sentence behind each sentence, and delegate the job to the editor, when it should be the job of the translator to determine the tone of the sentence so the editor could do their job.
     
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    Wasnt free just a moment ago?? Why now it need nuffies!?
     
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    Because this is likely the latest in a series of attacks from Qidian on Wuxiaworld. This time they are looking to discredit the standard of quality Ren constantly espouses. I would also be interested in finding out (I don't read these novels) if these chapters were translated before or after their arrival on Wuxiaworld.
     
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    smileyface New Member

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    Exactly my point.
     
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  13. MothEmperor07

    MothEmperor07 Well-Known Member

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    Ur sense of humour and English and not knowing when the tide is against you is even more amazing than whatever you said.
     
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    MothEmperor07 Well-Known Member

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    Nope not your point.Your point is WW IS SHIT! ALL HAIL QIDIAN!!
     
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    Kitsunebi Well-Known Member

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    Seriously? OP is talking about poor translation quality by complaining about tone and metaphors. Besides the fact that sentence tone and metaphors can be difficult for even native speakers to understand, they also tend to have multiple valid interpretations. These complaints can only be described as nitpicking as even full teams of professional translators have these kinds of "mistakes" all throughout their translations.
     
  16. Hahhaa

    Hahhaa hereby irrevocably & perpetually waives all moral

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    Money can't buy back your moral rights once your per
    "substandard". That probably the best verb to use hoping it not breaking contract lol
     
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    Goldsaif sect patriarch for the sect of primordial lurkers

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    you got weed?
     
  18. Loriel

    Loriel [Aspiring Editor][Lover of BL][Pinata Smasher]

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    Here we go again?
     
  19. Goldsaif

    Goldsaif sect patriarch for the sect of primordial lurkers

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    use different stuff your just using the same things again

    also stop opening threads you've opened more threads then I have
     
  20. smileyface

    smileyface New Member

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    Somebody did mention that this should be moved to the tlc, which I figured would be somewhat helpful to people who are learning advanced Chinese.
     
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