When I started learning Japanese, I was really excited about the times when I'd be able to share my knowledge with other fans
Ah, that's definitely familiar! Translation discourse is definitely Big Yikes and most of the time I'm only even seeing it secondhand – I'm glad that I got started translating before it really cropped up (at least on my dash), and probably helped that most of it was off Tumblr anyway.
For me I think translating stuff hits a couple of the same buttons I also like about writing (something about the twist-words-into-pretzels aspect probably) so I do really enjoy it when I've got the mental resources to spare. Which is admittedly not so much, these days XD definitely couldn't manage another monster sized translation like this one.
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Date: 2022-02-08 02:32 pm (UTC)When I started learning Japanese, I was really excited about the times when I'd be able to share my knowledge with other fans
Ah, that's definitely familiar! Translation discourse is definitely Big Yikes and most of the time I'm only even seeing it secondhand – I'm glad that I got started translating before it really cropped up (at least on my dash), and probably helped that most of it was off Tumblr anyway.
For me I think translating stuff hits a couple of the same buttons I also like about writing (something about the twist-words-into-pretzels aspect probably) so I do really enjoy it when I've got the mental resources to spare. Which is admittedly not so much, these days XD definitely couldn't manage another monster sized translation like this one.