Thread:Dynamisx/@comment-4784862-20160118025007/@comment-27612159-20160118101243

Hi,

To answer your questions:

Yes, I translated the whole of Day 291 from the Japanese raw, by hand. I started off just intending to edit it into natural english and referencing the Jap raw for clarification, but I found so many outright errors and omissions in the machine translation that I couldnt stand it and went back to the source. That's why it took me 3 evenings to do one day! I've not heard of translator aggregators before, sounds interesting...

I do speak Japanese to an intermediate level, and I lived there for 3 years so I'm fairly good at understanding colloquial Japanese. My kanji reading is terrible now though, but I use Rikai-kun plugin in chrome for that, so TLnig from a web raw is 100x easier than trying to count the strokes in a tiny, blurry kanji from a scanned raw just so I can look it up!

I'll update the TL progress page you linked thanks, didn't know you had that. I did this day on a whim and it was a lot of work but I'm willing to do some more now I've gotten into the swing of it.

Hmm, I thought putting it in brackets was the way it was done? Personally I don't like it but I was trying to imitate the style in previous pages. As for the exact brackets I used, I figured if it mattered then someone who knew how to make the special brackets would fix it.

As for that, I tried to stick to that approach, even though it personally offends the idea of "translation"! It just reminds my of all my old Japanese English students who did the same thing... makes it look like a beginner translated. One sentence per line is a common style in Japanese but makes no sense carried over into English (in fact, it's incorrect). However, as it's the way things are done I tried to align. However, in some cases to capture the meaning I had to convert 1-2 japanese sentences into 3-4 english ones, so I left them as a paragraph in those cases.