Discussion Your feeling when reading raws (machine translation)

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Do you read Raws (novel)?

  1. Yes, through machine translation

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  2. Yes, I can understand chinese

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  3. No

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  1. Myross17

    Myross17 [Queen of Underworld] [Immortal Cultivator]

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    What are your feelings when you are reading raws? Especially those someone like me through machine translation?

    If you ask me, I think I have another language that I can understand haha the feeling that I can understand alien language, lol

    But sometimes, I feel drowsy or fell asleep especially when I can no longer understand what they are talking about or who they are talking to. Through MTL, the naming are not specific for example Jun Wu Xie from Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss, her name in mtl are sometimes called thousand miles innocent. If I didn't pay attention in small details, I might not know who is who. You can also missed some important details that is not understandable -___-

    Even if it's hard to understand, I still insist. I can't wait for the translation, you know, curious cat xD

    What about you? Do you read raws?
     
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    Danis {(Harem Sect Leader)}{Trickster}&{Lurker}

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    Liron Well-Known (Failed) Prophet

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    My eyes hurt when reading MTL. My brain hurts. But at some point you start making sense of things and understand 80% of a chapter. But damn is it hard.
     
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    Silverblood Forbidden Library

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    The moment you try to make a decent report in english. After reading tons of mtls hahaha. Is the moment you realize you lost your english.

    But who cares whats important is the meaning in the text not the accuracy hahaha
     
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    Some i can roughly understand them like My Wife is Beautiful CEO but some i can't even like Heavenly star i give up on spot when i try mtl
     
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    GilgameshX2114 Eccentric Gil, Almighty Immortal, God of All

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    My eyes hurt, my mind hurts, my understanding processes are going full speed yet still can't understand anything...
     
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    Lawlyeth [Gorrila Warfare Expert]

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    It's fine
     
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    Morvian 『Weakened King』『Abandoned Man』『Man Of Culture』

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    whenever i read MTL my face is like this :unsure: then if its too long my face changed to :confused:
     
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    Uno ฅ Holy Lurker ฅ

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    My brain hurts reading mtl, dunt want to damage it further
     
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    TheUnbreakablePlotArmor Mt.Tai cannot see me, as you cannot see Mt.tai

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    even thought i have cultivated the heavenly eyes scripture to perfection i still cannot see through the undecipherable text known as MTL
     
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    MH2 [Former Child]

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    It's like trying to understand math
     
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    Haevrus No.1 Incognito Webuser

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    Amaruna Myu ugly squid dokja (●´∀｀●)

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    It's a pain, especially when those words in the novel is something I don't learn in class. It takes me 5 minutes to read 1 page of a chinese book. 1 chapter? Yup. Impossible.
     
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    Depends on where you read them.
    I don't mind reading on LNMTL but not for every novel
    For the typical cultivation novels there is no problems since they have a lot of similar phrases used and they were translated well but for non standard novels like world of the magus world the machine translation misses a few things that might be important.
    With cultivation novels I just read off of LNMTL if I have to and after a few chapters it feels almost the same as reading normal you just need to learn how to interpret it the right way
     
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    MTL ? ofc its not that hard if you have high comprehension skills to piece the literally translated words... although sometimes it can be misleading and reverse the meaning or doesn't make any sense at all.
    Also, I've seen a lot of people said its easier for people who speak english not as their native languange, and I've seen some native english speakers complain "it feels weird to read text without proper gramar structure" lol
     
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    Robinhood1 *The Mood breaker*

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    I have read dozens of novels from raws. Now I think I became an idiot ...
     
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    Zerak Well-Known Member

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    Right now I read on LMNTL
    Against the gods
    Library of heavens path
    Paradise of demons and gods
    LLS
    Cultivation chat group
     
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    Its hard to read understand and wait for the MTLd version to pop up, im only using my cell to read those novels i want to read in advance, and yes its a pain in the @$$ thats why i am thankful that the novels i read arent dropped yet.

    The hard part is it sometimes repeat a bunch of sentences. And skimming that to find where i am at.
    Well it really depends on how we are curious and how we deal with that hell
     
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    I speak both English and Arabic fluently so I am not sure if want you say is wright or wrong. But if did bother me a lot at the start but now I have read over 2k chapters on LMNTL so I adapted
     
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    actually im fine it just my speaking grammar went troublesome and i just losing my iq everytiem i read it..
     
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