Well, just how the hell am I supposed to translate this, then? "Svenska Folk-Sagor och Äfventyr" Swedish folktales and folktales? Swedish folktales and adventures? What is the difference, in Swedish, between a saga and an äventyr?
I fell at the first hurdle, it seems.
Found another very cool database for translation related to Japanese tourism/sightseeing. Looks like this has been around for a few years already - wonder why I had never heard of it before. They even offer all the data as an excel file and have conducted two annual updates so far.
『地域観光資源の多言語解説文データベース』、2022年3月に公開されているらしいけど、今まで知らなかった。便利そうだ。
（「日本語（仮訳）については、英語解説文の作成時に、内容確認を目的に英語からの直訳をしたものであり、日本人向けに作成した解説文ではありません。」とのことです。）
mm, 31553 words and 76.5%. I am slowly (perhaps too slowly?) catching up.
well, 29622 words, and 71% done. the novel's picking up steam, but I seem to still be 2 or 3 days behind... 🤔
hrm. 51% of this novel done, according to OmegaT, and it's only about 22500 words... might have to adjust my goal for this month.
Thanks to long production schedules, I'm currently translating Christmas copy. 😂
Not quite feeling the peppermint coffee and gingerbread vibe right now…
Still quite happy with this TL idea I used the other day. There was a JA sentence with two long subjects and one long verb and object, and I translated it like this
Original (paraphrased): [long noun phrase 1] and [long noun phrase 2] will [long verb phrase]
Translation: [long noun phrase 1] will [long verb phrase], as will [long noun phrase 2]
It's simple enough but it took a while before the idea came to me
Does anyone know what sounds dogs can make in Indonesian and in (miscellaneous--it's not clear from the text) Indian language? I've found 'guk guk' for Indonesian, but the transliteration I'm working with suggests a 'gon gon' pronunciation? For India, I've found that both Hindi and Urdu are 'bow bow', but again, my transliteration is 'bufu bufu' or 'buhu buhu', so I'm unconvinced I've found the right ones...
This came out awhile ago, but since I'm on a new server and since I've been thinking about how lovely this book is over the past few days, it feels worth sharing again.
This is a BL manga I translated earlier this year that's available digitally on Manga Planet! It's a beautiful collection of stories (mostly) about students at a fine arts university who're trying to figure out who they are and their art and happen to fall in love during the process.
It was an absolute pleasaure to translate such a wonderful and sensitively done work and I couldn't be more pleased with how it turned out. Would be great if it got a print release someday since the story really deserves it 🥹
Simon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋
Daniel
meredeth
Herzleid
Jim Rion
Taylor Drew