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Post by Ham on Nov 14, 2017 17:18:30 GMT 9
Deaimon
I only found out about the thing about a week ago and was like I WILL DO THIS except then I had meetings :V
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Post by Nurkiras on Dec 14, 2017 9:47:05 GMT 9
Anyone else get their Kurodahan email? I definitely didn't win but placed 15 out of 49 so that's nice I guess?
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Post by Mumblesnore on Dec 14, 2017 10:27:31 GMT 9
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Post by Ividia on Dec 14, 2017 10:36:07 GMT 9
hue I genuinely placed so much worse than that
I am disheartened and want to crumble into a tiny ball ; _ ;
but I guess I'll try again next year becAUSE IT IS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND RESULTS DO NOT MATTER
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Post by Mumblesnore on Dec 14, 2017 10:39:52 GMT 9
よしよしヾ(・ω・｀)
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Post by Nurkiras on Dec 14, 2017 10:42:27 GMT 9
I honestly believe both of you have much better translation/ general nippomgo skills, I just had a massive time advantage which allowed me to edit and pore over each word...
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Post by Mumblesnore on Dec 14, 2017 10:44:35 GMT 9
I wish I had done it ;~;
Why am I such a NAMAKEMONO :o
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Post by Nurkiras on Dec 14, 2017 10:46:28 GMT 9
there's always next year, but my powers will have doubled by then
random aside: teaching the "will have ~ed" construction in English is really hard. I ended up drawing pictures and marching around to explain my point
maybe i will post a picture in the eikaiwa thread for SAMKOU
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Post by Ividia on Dec 14, 2017 10:46:47 GMT 9
I think you have far better English composition and creative writing, and that is if anything, more important in translating fiction! But it is such a fundamental difference (like, I'm pretty confidence shaking-ly low) that I wonder whether they marked me down for British English, or I made some really basic stupid mistake....like thE NAME?? Anyway I will try not to think about it and set myself on the helter skelter of self loathing hue  |
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Post by Nurkiras on Dec 14, 2017 11:01:01 GMT 9
They could always just get your permission to "correct" the British English if you won, so maybe it was more stylistic? Idk how one assigns points to something as abstract as a "good" literary translation honestly
And I really, really want to see the finalists
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Post by Ham on Dec 28, 2017 16:57:10 GMT 9
Oh, hey, Manga Translation Battle results are out. Didn't place (unsurprisingly), but it means I have the chance to read over the finalists' submissions now!
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Post by Nurkiras on Jan 5, 2018 9:45:07 GMT 9
Speaking of which, all the names people came up with for the Grandpa character in the Kurodahan contest are hilarious.
My favorite is Poppa
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Post by Mumblesnore on Jan 29, 2018 14:12:14 GMT 9
Oh, hey, Manga Translation Battle results are out. Didn't place (unsurprisingly), but it means I have the chance to read over the finalists' submissions now! Oh nice! (more than a month late lmao) I can't wait to read the ones for the manga I half-translated to see how they handed all the onomatopoeia. |
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Post by Miscreative on Feb 1, 2018 13:16:29 GMT 9
less a contest and more just a test but i figured i would drop this here before we lose it I wonder how I get the job of translating ~films~ into English for the subtitles for DVDs. Someone has that job. Why can't it be....WATASI? Have at it, hulemdos. |
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Post by Psychic Pug on Feb 1, 2018 13:49:24 GMT 9
less a contest and more just a test but i figured i would drop this here before we lose it I took that test (and passed) before cause I used to translate subs while waiting for my jet interview results. Not worth it~ Not that I’m encouraging people to profit while on jet but Netflix rate for nihongo is $27 per video minute but some of it will go to the vendors, proofreaders and some other peeps and then lastly the subtitler. So you’re lucky to get $3-5. Most vendors just charge $1-2. I just wanted to rant how subtitlers get paid so low. |
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Post by Miscreative on Feb 1, 2018 13:50:47 GMT 9
maybe that is why quality is so crap. you want quality, you have to pay for it
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Post by Mumblesnore on Feb 1, 2018 13:51:18 GMT 9
Hmm.
I'm still gonna try hue
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Post by Psychic Pug on Feb 1, 2018 14:06:56 GMT 9
Mumblesnore do it! subtitling is fun~ Honestly, subtitling and video games translation were my fave class in uni and I wanted to be a subtitler after jet if the pay wasn't しte. Miscreative I agree hyakupasento When Netflix announced that they were doing this whole hermes test there were some news sites/blogs who wrote about it. But a lot of them wrote their articles in a way that made people think "oh hey I know ââ language I can definitely do this" so they didn't expect the influx of people (mostly those without translation experience and thought that Netflix will pay them $$$) who took the test. The passing grade is different for each language pair but they never really told people what the minimum passing grade was...
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Post by Aya Raincoat on Feb 1, 2018 14:30:26 GMT 9
It kind of sucks that the more fun types of translation are also the worst paid...
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Post by Mumblesnore on Feb 1, 2018 14:32:22 GMT 9
C'est la vie だね
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Post by Mumblesnore on Feb 2, 2018 13:16:07 GMT 9
less a contest and more just a test but i figured i would drop this here before we lose it this is the netflix subtitling thingo |
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Post by ♦EarlBergamot♦ on Feb 2, 2018 15:02:43 GMT 9
Mumblesnore ah. I took a look but I highly doubt my EN -> JP ability. ;P
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Post by Ividia on Jun 18, 2018 13:51:19 GMT 9
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Post by Nurkiras on Jun 18, 2018 13:59:59 GMT 9
Oooh boy thank you!!!
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Post by Ividia on Jun 18, 2018 14:02:57 GMT 9
I'm gonna give it another go this year and try not to fail miserably hue especially if it's looking like I might have to try and hustle for freelance in the near future, as I plan to move back to the UK with no job lined up
Hopefully the writing thread and forum dnd has polished my prose a little...and I guess I'll write in American English to be on the safe side hue
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Post by Psychic Pug on Jun 18, 2018 14:04:11 GMT 9
wao
6. Notification
All contest entrants will be informed of the contest results. The winner’s name (or a
pseudonym if desired) will be posted on the Kurodahan Press website.
If I win I'm not joining this I want my pseudonym to be Hamamatsu Jun.
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Post by Dee on Jun 18, 2018 14:05:28 GMT 9
I want to try it again this year too.
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Post by Ividia on Jun 18, 2018 14:08:51 GMT 9
omg it's so short this year
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Post by hohoEMIsen on Jun 18, 2018 14:18:27 GMT 9
THIS YEAR KOSO. *promises to work on it Can't wait to join in the comparison with all of you  |
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Post by Nurkiras on Jun 18, 2018 14:24:57 GMT 9
one sentence in and the 和nk has already frazzled my puny noggin
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