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I think I may be one of those translators that purists hate
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I posted that translated page of Gunnerkrigg Court I did on /r/Japanese asking for feedback
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there hasn't been much of a response yet, but one native speaker has responded with corrections mainly centering around where I deviated from the original text
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which I did, strongly, and to a degree intentionally
Alterz
I'm not fluent enough to have picked up on changes; what did you change?
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I am a very very pragmatic translator
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hm let's see
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well, excepting the things I got flat-out wrong (which there were a few)
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where Jones says "rocks and stones" my translation just said "things like stones";
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where she said it was "not a perfect definition" I said it was, "as a metaphor, insufficient"
Alterz
I see... absolutely nothing wrong with that translation?
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the semanticist in me is also noticing how this person and I both had different interpretations of what she meant by "a constant"
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though I like their interpretation better
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I read it as "has always been here", they read it as "never changes"
Alterz
I interpreted it as both: having been there unchangingly the whole time :\
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yeah but it's difficult to make that concise
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it's difficult to pick out which corrections are "I know this language way way better than you ever will" and which ones are "I didn't interpret the text the same way you did"
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there seem to be a mix of both
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so it's hard to know how to act on the feedback
Alterz
Man, IDK. Nothing you've mentioned has sounded bad so far to me, though.
Alterz
Good luck with the whole thing.
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(this may also partly be a battle between the part of me that says "EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER DONE IS INCORRECT" and the part of me that says "dude I'm pretty sure I'm at a level where it's okay to look critically
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at the feedback that I get, stop worrying")
Alterz
Seconding the voice saying to look critically at the feedback.
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Just in case that helps push the balance of the battle.
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haha if only it were that easily done
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anyway thread here
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(like I said, there were some things that were actually objectively incorrect so I left those out of this discussion)