I do occasionally have thoughts that are not about Miraculous, so I figure I might as well share those, too. Something that gets talked about a lot in manga localization circles is AI, and recently one of our colleagues was talking about someone who was making an argument for AI over human translators by suggesting that maybe it would be better to ( Read more... )

We finished all the stuff we wanted to do today and had an extra hour, so we watched another episode of the live action One Piece, and I just want to say...it's a silly show.

Today we had an adventure that did not involve bizarre smoke alarm shenanigans. After about a decade of letting our manga comp copies pile up because we live in a cave and ( Read more... )

This morning Grawp called so we could play...Pokemon! It's a miracle! We have no idea if it will last, but for today, we got to play Pokemon with the nephew again. We caught a Steelix from a Dynamax den and then did some trading before he had to leave. The family had plans to go to the zoo with our stepsister who was visiting (their area) from ( Read more... )

What do I have to write about today? ...We went to church...studied the scriptures...and read manga. That's pretty much our day in a nutshell. The manga we read was mostly Koi ni Mudaguchi, the newest series by Ryoko Fukuyama. It's full of ridiculousness and thoroughly awesome. It would be so much fun to translate...and also a pain in the neck ( Read more... )

I feel like I had a thing I could talk about today, but I've forgotten it in a haze of shoujo manga fluffiness. But I can't write about that, because I read Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai, and Athena read Our Precious Conversations (for some reason I'm too bitter about not being the translators on Hananoi-kun to bother with the official English title ( Read more... )

The chocolate oatmeal cookie experiment was a success! ...Which means there's not a whole lot else to say about it. We tried the recipe, we managed to make it without destroying the kitchen, and now we have cookies (although if you ask some people, this particular "cookie" is more of a candy). And they taste pretty good, too! ...I guess there ( Read more... )

Today was another typical Sunday, only instead of reading Jules Verne, we took a break from him and read some manga instead! Oh man, it's been a long time since we've read manga for pleasure. ...I'm not sure I have anything else to say about it, though ( Read more... )

Today we got to do a test! A translation test! ...And it was pretty much like our regular job, only I'm pretty sure there's already an English version of what we translated in print and on sale. It was kind of neat, though. In all our years translating, I think this was actually the first time we've ever taken a manga translation test. We've ( Read more... )

Week two of canceled church...and maybe it's already having a negative impact on me, because I'm already getting into linguistic disputes on the internet. ...Eh, who am I kidding? I would have gotten into that argument whether or not I'd been to church today. I just don't understand why there has been such a spike in question mark usage among ( Read more... )

Lately I've been getting more and more to a point where I just want to rant at people. This started happening before we watched Perfect Harmony last night, so I assure you, it's not Arthur Cochran's influence. Intellectually, I know that yelling at people is not an effective way to help them, but that almost makes it worse. I also know ranting ( Read more... )