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balckwell
1 year ago
I feel like the main utility of a "literal" translation would be attempting to explain the grammatical structure of a language to someone trying to learn. The sentence that emerges is usually complete nonsense in the target language, but reveals the way that the words and particles fit together in the original.
balckwell
1 year ago
However, a "literal" translation that is just the dictionary definition of each word one after the other (like in the example you linked) is quite unhelpful, and I think you're right to say that it exoticizes the language. It makes it seem like people who read/speak Chinese do so in some utterly alien way, when in reality they parse sentences as naturally and fluidly as someone would in English.
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saddleblasters
1 year ago
I've seen non-chinese-speakers talk this way before about the two meanings of 想, but even in English, think also has (at least) two very different usages: (1) to think/contemplate about something, and (2) to think/believe something is true. the second usage isn't at all a logical necessity -- chinese doesn't really use 想 that way, you'd typically use 认为 or 觉得 to express it
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saddleblasters
1 year ago
so one could easily take an english sentence like "I think this is beautiful" and translate it word by word into Chinese to make all sorts of weird conjectures about the English-speakers' psychology
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balckwell
1 year ago
thanks to the generous advice of some fellow webmasters, i am now able to transfer essays at speeds hitherto unimaginable. Behold: the entire RAINICHI 2023 series (so far) in all its glory!!
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balckwell
1 year ago
of course i begin the long, laborious task of transferring my essays with the two most formatting-heavy essays i've ever composed
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sorbier
1 year ago
how are your essays formatted originally? there may be an easier way than reformatting by hand
balckwell
1 year ago
immediately after posting this, i looked into it and found a conversion tool online that should remove ~90% of the fuss. unfortunately it's a web app, which i generally try to avoid; do you know of a desktop program that works well? i tried the "export to html" function on my word processor (scrivener) and it output the most bloated nonsensical HTML imaginable (in my amateur opinion.)
sorbier
1 year ago
ah, unfortunately I don't. I thought if they were originally posted on wordpress that they may be in markdown, in which case you can use pandoc; i don't know of anything from word processors -> html. sorry ):
siqu
1 year ago
you can export to "multimarkdown" with scrivener, then use pandoc to convert to html, or anything else that'd process the "multimarkdown" variant of markdown. pandoc html may be less bloated, but mileage may vary. panwriter looks like a reasonable enough application to use: https://panwriter.com/
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balckwell
1 year ago
interesting! I never even thought of converting them straight from WordPress. I will look into all these option -- thank you both! this might end up being much easier than I expected (although i will still be using the opportunity to revise/edit many of the essays)
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great website! looking forward to future NaSauns!
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balckwell
1 year ago
Working on a hand-made site that will replace the current Wordpress blog. I'll be uploading it here as a work-in-progress because why not!
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added most of the essays in the "Best of Personal Essays" section + a "not_found" page because of all the links that don't yet go anywhere!