Free-For-All Friday

[geraineon]

Time for free for all Friday, a day for random chit-chat!

Do you want to talk about the other novels you are reading or find a read-along partner? Practice your Chinese? Request for fics? Ask for beta readers? Just talk about your day?

Go right ahead!

Comments

[aurumcalendula]

I'm not sure, tbh. I should look into the fan translation scene. So far I've only read the (afaik) official translations of The Loyal Pin and Petrichor (and part of Cranium). Most official English translations of Thai novels seem to be on MEB (which I've personally found annoying to deal with), but some are also available on Amazon.

I really wish the translations were better. I can't read Thai, so I can't judge how well they're translated, but in some of the English versions I've noticed tense and other issues that imho an editor should have caught (randomly using him instead of her for a female character, calling someone's girlfriend her boyfriend, etc).

[douqi]

I've dipped into a couple of the official English translations and have found them extremely difficult to read. I got the disquieting sense that if I read on, I'd start losing my sense of what a solid English sentence should sound like. The official Taiwanese translation of Gap was pretty decent though (I did not like the novel, but I appreciated the translation).

[geraineon]

Ah, that's disappointing... And through my brief foray into Korean webnovels, the situation is not better there either /sigh/