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- Feb 11, 2023
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The only one not listening is you. If your goal was to avoid being called MTL, this makes it look more like MTL. I am sorry for this being harsh, but you getting this defensive over feedback forces a escalation from the responses.It is trolling. You literally have no idea what you are talking about like most likely the entire rest of the guys that are trying to tell me what to do. How many can even read a single Kanji? How many of you have heard of stuff like sonkeigo or kenjougo? No one, because most other translators just drop it. Just to be clear: It is so much more easy to just drop all the nuances and localize the shit of the script. But then you guys are crying about such translation. Or about MTL.
I wrote in the TL note that they use different types of politeness level. AND it changes throughout the entire dialog. Using it one time in the opening is like dropping the entire nuances.
Does it sound a bit strange/kinky? Yes it does! Does it sound so in Japanese, too? Yes, kind of. This is not how everyday Japanese are talking nowadays. It a stylistic way in this context. Most importantly: Did I get the point across? Seeing all your reaction tells me yes.
Hepburn and I were literally discussing for hours how we would get the point across. Trying different words, grammar, sentence structures... The meme joke on the bottom of the tl note page was actually not a joke at all.
But I guess it is meaningless to try to explain this. You won´t listen anyway. I will continue to keep the nuances in future chapters. If you don´t like it well I guess you don´t have to read it.
Btw: Why did no one of you guys who know how to do it better, joined our discord to join the team and make an even better translation? Well I guess we know why![]()
Fact is people are commenting because the translation felt wrong and awkward. This is something you should care about, your claims of you spend hours debating doesn't mean you care about the readers, yet get mad at feedback. It tells the story that you care about how it was done personally and fought with your team over it.
Even your claim of the tone changes at multiple points, and that you are conveying that, is nonsense. You are claiming you used used one word to mean half a dozen different ways of talking. That makes no sense. If your claim was real you would use different words.
All this looks like is, you spent hours fighting your team till they let you do what you wanted as you do not care to hear what others say. Then in your arrogance came to the comment section expecting nothing but praise that you could rub in your teams face. Only for the readers to not like your way of doing it.
To be frank, delete your forum account, it won't be the echo chamber you demand it be. Your are not mentally mature enough to handle feedback and hold conversations with readers. Your not really even suitable for any public based job where you will get talked about and face criticism.