[ SECRET POST #4787 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4787⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's fine as long as the author doesn't make clumsy mistakes. I think it's generally better if the author footnotes a translation but ultimately, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't regard having to look at footnotes or going to Google for a translation as a big problem - if anything I find it more interesting. The only time I get slightly annoyed is when the quote is in Greek or Cyrillic or some other non-latin alphabet so I can't easily Google it.

[(Anonymous)]

copy/past is always awesome for that; have to use it myself WAY too often when people think it's awesome to have a character lapse into Russian during sex. It's SO spoils the moment that I have to copy-paste that into googletranslate to get something like "fuck more you are so gorgeous".

/also, as an expat primarily using my second language with my lovers… yeah, in my (admittedly not extensive but still) experience this is just … not a thing. A swearword, MAYBE, but definitely not anything more than that. :/

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, copy/paste does work on screens! That is true. But not so much in print - I remember reading philosophers in college with untranslated Greek that was central to their argument and it did get slightly annoying.

Also that's really interesting!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh- in print, absolutely - I was thinking only of screens because it's here so I was thinking of fanfic mainly... but yes, having to manually type in something from a print source is waaaaaaaaaaaay more difficult.