Ōzaru@TarkabarkaHolgy Here's a mystery I hope you can help solve. You posted something (maybe around 20 July 2023 judging by the URL?) that I wanted to answer when I had more time. I bookmarked it from https://folksocial.org/@TarkabarkaHolg[email protected]/110745406044617343 *but* FolkSocial have redirected to BlueSky and all past posts seem to be lost, inc. many I wanted to save. 😠 I can find no archive copy, not even on Ohai. 😞 Do you still have it? I've a vague recollection it may have been about a translation annoyance, but that could be wrong.
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág@ozaru was it a Japanese translation topic?
@TarkabarkaHolgy Might well have been, if that rings a bell (that is my expertise, although I'm mainly on Mastodon for folklore stuff)
@ozaru I think I was looking for translations for the Sanada Ten Braves novels
@TarkabarkaHolgy It's starting to come back... might you have said something like you were annoyed how nobody had translated it yet (even perhaps a comment that it ought to be done as having them in English would get a wider readership, or something along those lines)?
@ozaru yes, I periodically post about epics and traditional literature that I can't find in English or Hungarian, hoping someone will translate them eventually 😄 Sanada Ten Braves has been on the list for a while
@TarkabarkaHolgy OK. I'm often asked to translate books until they learn it takes 6m, costs £10K+, and seldom finds a publisher (we/they'd never recoup the costs), so it's a post-retirement labour of love. Sometimes you can 'get the gist' via MT/AI then focus on short passages for the human touch. There's some Sanada stuff at 青空文庫 - use MT, e.g. https://www-aozora-gr-jp.translate.goog/cards/000083/files/1367_36746.html?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp ... If you're willing to risk OCR too, there's also https://manga.line.me/product/periodic?id=S138955 - but probably still in copyright.