Look, Vaeril, if you can't read Japanese and have to rely on MTLs or plagiarism, then DON'T TRANSLATE.

YOU. ARE. NOT. HELPING.

You're just making more work for me, because I have to fix your shit* and do reverse image searches to check if plagiarism is involved. Which I suspect is here, because of a suspicious lack of translation of the parts that are outside speech bubbles (and the inclusion of one of the external parts into an adjacent speech bubble), making it look like it's copied from a hard translation elsewhere.

(Yes, really, it's more effort than if I start with a blank canvas. It's like coding, really, fixing shitty code/TNs is more effort than writing it from scratch. And like coding, if you drop plagiarized copy-pasta code into a public repository, then whoever's maintaining said repository is going to throw a hissy fit.)

NNescio said:

Lots of stuff.

Does that mean what I've been doing also counts as plagiarism?

boredman23 said:

Does that mean what I've been doing also counts as plagiarism?

I recall you cite your sources, so (likely) no. Misunderstanding may arise on some of the isolated (and uncommented) posts though.

NNescio said:

Look, Vaeril, if you can't read Japanese and have to rely on MTLs or plagiarism, then DON'T TRANSLATE.

YOU. ARE. NOT. HELPING.

You're just making more work for me, because I have to fix your shit* and do reverse image searches to check if plagiarism is involved. Which I suspect is here, because of a suspicious lack of translation of the parts that are outside speech bubbles (and the inclusion of one of the external parts into an adjacent speech bubble), making it look like it's copied from a hard translation elsewhere.

(Yes, really, it's more effort than if I start with a blank canvas. It's like coding, really, fixing shitty code/TNs is more effort than writing it from scratch. And like coding, if you drop plagiarized copy-pasta code into a public repository, then whoever's maintaining said repository is going to throw a hissy fit.)

Oh really now. Thank you very much for criticizing me of being a nice guy giving others in the community a quick grasp of what the hell is going on. I even got trashed for wrong translation before and I simply accepted then didn't say a single word about it.
And using my own understanding of japanese and gg trans app with my own words is now plag? Good to know.
And what's so hard about fixing. If you're that good, it take like a min or 2 thanks to the note system. Also, this is a community, where people can contribute however they can. If there's something wrong, there's someone else to help fix it. You sound like you're the only one here.
Anyway, fine, if you hate me doing this that much, go ahead and ban me or whatever.

While we appreciate the effort, the first translation doesn't quite grasp the nuance of the language. Some of the translation was also a bit rough (well, more like too direct) so that doesn't really match the character and circumstances.

We generally operate under the maxim "no translation is better than a bad translation" so that might not be the philosophy that you would ascribe to. Believe me, it's tempting to add a rough translation as testing the waters, but if the wrong conclusion or nuance is drawn from the image, the whole story changes.

AdventZero said:

While we appreciate the effort, the first translation doesn't quite grasp the nuance of the language. Some of the translation was also a bit rough (well, more like too direct) so that doesn't really match the character and circumstances.

We generally operate under the maxim "no translation is better than a bad translation" so that might not be the philosophy that you would ascribe to. Believe me, it's tempting to add a rough translation as testing the waters, but if the wrong conclusion or nuance is drawn from the image, the whole story changes.

Quite weird maxim but ok. Thanks for the information. At least your comment is better than the other guy.

With all due respect, Vaeril, letting yourself get this hurt after relying on a machine translation is a bit much.

Sonja_Nachtbringer said:

With all due respect, Vaeril, letting yourself get this hurt after relying on a machine translation is a bit much.

No respect due at all for posting other peoples translations without crediting them which is tantamount to stealing, causing issues for people who can actually read the damn language in the first place then getting butthurt over being called out on it. Not for the first time either, just the first time that they have bothered to respond to said callings-out in the other works I've seen it in.

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