what are y'alls thoughts on ppl who use google translate and produce shit translations?
I've noticed something annoying. Uploaders with zero knowledge on the language from which they are translating, using literal google translate, making bad and/or completely inaccurate translations and bad edits.
And then they'll go
"Uwu I'm so sorry I actually dont understand said language but I wanted to - " stfu. You were irrelevant the moment you admitted you don't know the language.
For what purpose does someone who doesn't even understand the language to want to do translations? Why? Are you seeking approval? Attention? People's admiration? Are you just delusional?
Majority of people who end up reading these shit translations will show how "thankful" they are for the effort. Well, unpopular opinion here, but maybe dont enable people to keep doing this. Dont enable people incapable of knowing the language to delude themselves into thinking they're doing anything useful. Because point blank nothing ruins a potentially good story more than the shit translations.
Please just leave it for people who actually know what they're doing.
I will agree with your unpopular opinion. They are so annoying and I reserve my thanks and praise for the scanlation teams who put in effort to do the story justice by actually working on as good a translation as possible. Those guys are awesome.
But the google translations are awful. Especially if they are translating Chinese manhua it becomes a n......
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07 08,2023