Your feeling when reading raws (machine translation)

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  • #11
I read raws when there is no TL, or if I caught up to the latest TL-ed chapter.
I rather read raws and get a headache but improve on my Chinese than read MTL and ruin my brain...
I tried, I tried @_@
I just couldn't stand it, MTL made me wanna puke blood!! D; 
 
  • #12
well i can decode it... and i usually just skim it as long as i can understand the whole chapter synopsis like i gucci 
 
  • #13
The machine translation from Korean to Japanese is actually pretty good and comprehensible. I've read several really good Japanese novels that translators dropped through it. Although, a skilled translator is still much better. 
 
  • #14
reading raws in machine translation is so bad for me, but its depends whether you truly loved that novel. 
 
  • #15
I tried so hard and got so far, in the end it doesn't even matter....~ Linkin Park 
 
  • #16
The first chinese novel that really forced me to machine translate was Zhan Long. Then being a dork that i am, started or tried studying chinese. I got up to 300 characters and realized this is too slow. So I made a program to assist me in reading. yeah i was fking addicted to reading chinese novels like crack that it actually FORCED me to program. 
 
  • #17
I kind of do it but more to learn a bit more about the language(have rudimentary knowledge of both Chinese and Japanese, don't recognize enough characters to even pretend to translate lol) and to rewrite it to something I don't mind reading in the future. Obviously 0 plans on releasing it to the public, but it's kind of nice to know that a few years down the road, all that mtl bullshit you waded through? resulted in something you don't mind reading yourself if you like the story enough.

If it's something I don't feel like rereading in the future, then I just drop trying to "failtranslate" it.  No harm done to anyone in the end. except my brain cells  
 
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