Over-localization
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@Sam-Pinansky As long as there is a foot note explaining what it means culturally.
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@Jon-Mitchell I got that when I tried to read a machine translated version of Sorcerer King of Destruction. It made no sense!
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@Folker46 said in Over-localization:
@Sam-Pinansky As long as there is a foot note explaining what it means culturally.
I'm all for footnotes or annotations, but I also realize that this is extra work. If the API allows it; I'd pay more coins (say 799 vs 699) for some works if they had annotations/footnotes (as long as they can be turned off) or a glossary
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@Jon-Mitchell Some manga's do that, the translator will leave a note in the spaces between panels, I learned a lot from those.
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Isn't there at least one JNC title with TL notes at the end of the parts, or am I thinking of other publishers?
I'm against having the notes interrupt the main text unless that can be turned off. It throws me out of the story.
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@HarmlessDave Some series have translation notes, but that's premium content.
Or maybe you're thinking of D-Genesis that explains some citations/annotations at the end of some chapters/sections? But I believe those are included in the LN itself rather than being additions by the translator.
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When I read "Saga of Tanya the Evil" on Kindle, it has footnotes that open a pop-up window when I tap the link in the text, and then I can just close the window when I'm done.
I haven't seen any other LNs with this feature though, I think it might be nice if JNC could do that with their e-books.
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@Terabyte said in Over-localization:
@HarmlessDave Some series have translation notes, but that's premium content.
Or maybe you're thinking of D-Genesis that explains some citations/annotations at the end of some chapters/sections? But I believe those are included in the LN itself rather than being additions by the translator.
Yep, D-Genesis. I hadn't realized those annotations were coming from the original version.
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@BlueDragoon said in Over-localization:
I haven't seen any other LNs with this feature though, I think it might be nice if JNC could do that with their e-books.
D-Genesis also does this with its footnotes. JNC just typically don't make footnotes
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@BlueDragoon said in Over-localization:
When I read "Saga of Tanya the Evil" on Kindle, it has footnotes
Purely off the top of my head, I seem to recall that the footnotes in Tanya are from the original text, not added by the localization team.
