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Another week in the books. Let’s chat about manga in the general discussion thread! Feel free to use this thread for questions, comments, recommendations, etc.

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  • Unboxious@ani.socialEnglish
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    13 days ago

    On a slightly different note, does anyone here read manhwa? I need a secondary opinion because the more I read, the more it feels like some of the groups localising them use machine translation (or non-fluent people). Things like constant misgendering, regular changes to name spelling (for both people and locations), attributing things said in the past to wrong characters and more are pretty much something I expect rather than a surprise at this point. It’s distracting, sloppy and, at times, pretty annoying.

    I don’t read much manwha but all of the things you’ve mentioned are common problems you’ll see with machine-translated Japanese. I wouldn’t expect most of these problems to be an issue with human translators who merely lack skill. Definitely machine translation, and low-effort machine translation at that.

    • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Yeah… I’m mostly just trying to cope with that “non-fluent people” line to be honest. I guess I was lucky enough with translations throughout the years I got used to people putting actual effort - even if their work wasn’t perfect it showed they cared enough to try. Seeing groups pump-out trash with no proofreading is disappointing, doubly so when the series turns out engaging otherwise. It makes me sad.