RE: How would I go about getting someone to translate a Light Novel or two or three?
10-12-2023, 01:05 PM
10-12-2023, 01:05 PM
Interesting update to all this: There exists, independent of me, a scan of Hard Metal Guardians.
I spent a few minutes in a Starbucks using Google Translate to translate the first chapter or so of the thing, and while much of said translation is muddled, the intent comes across clearly enough. It's quite bizarre, but if I were to just punch up the machine translation with my own prose... would that be sacrilegious, somehow? Even if I kept the weirdest parts of the story, like Priss trying to club a Boomer to death with a guitar and declaring victory in the name of Jimi Hendrix?
Because I looked at Baka-Tsuki, and it looks like the way projects are made there discourages commissions. You have to start translating a bit of any given LN yourself before any real 'project' gets off the ground. So, yeah, I guess I would have to work through more informal channels like Craigslist.
Maybe I should buy a second copy of the older LN's and dissect them for scanning just in case I decide to do this sometime in the future? Or maybe I should move on with my life. Heh.
I spent a few minutes in a Starbucks using Google Translate to translate the first chapter or so of the thing, and while much of said translation is muddled, the intent comes across clearly enough. It's quite bizarre, but if I were to just punch up the machine translation with my own prose... would that be sacrilegious, somehow? Even if I kept the weirdest parts of the story, like Priss trying to club a Boomer to death with a guitar and declaring victory in the name of Jimi Hendrix?
Because I looked at Baka-Tsuki, and it looks like the way projects are made there discourages commissions. You have to start translating a bit of any given LN yourself before any real 'project' gets off the ground. So, yeah, I guess I would have to work through more informal channels like Craigslist.
Maybe I should buy a second copy of the older LN's and dissect them for scanning just in case I decide to do this sometime in the future? Or maybe I should move on with my life. Heh.