Category talk:Novel translations

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New translation project

A fan has started a new translation project at http://legendofgalacticheroes.blogspot.com.au/

I think we should invite it to be hosted as it is already at Chapter 3 of the first book and also links to Gineipaedia. Thoughts? Iracundus 13:58, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

I agree. The translation looks pretty good and if the project eventually covers the entire series, it will be an invaluable resource to all English-speaking fans of LoGH and being hosted on Gineipaedia will (hopefully) help to increase its exposure to the fanbase. Glacierfairy 03:32, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Definitely. I love how it already links here. That likely means that the author is already a member. As someone who has hunted for English translations this is a most welcome development. Strayor 04:37, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

They may link here or reference here but it does not necessarily mean they are registered members. The author at https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9498399/1/An-Ideal-To-Fight-For for example has a good LOGH fanfiction in an alternative timeline and has many references but I do not think he is a registered member here. Anyway, can someone drop a comment to the translation project person? Leaving comments on there requires accounts that I do not have, and I must admit not wanting to set up an account just purely to leave 1 comment. Iracundus 09:07, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Actually, I'm the author of 'An Ideal To Fight For'. I do reference here a lot, and fill in the blanks about things that are absent to make it a coherent story. FPA Forever

Well there's a start. Love your work by the way. Iracundus, I'll hop on over there and see if I can get him to directly coordinate with us. Strayor 20:47, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Oh that mystery solved then. Very good story. I must admit I was hoping it was somebody else (as it would mean another potential new member with good knowledge out there). Incidentally the translator is female. She seems to be using the rank system from the old logh.net instead of the official one from the sketches we have here on our site. Maybe she does not know where to find it on the site, and she does not seem to be a military buff so it may all seem a bit confusing. Iracundus 22:06, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes. She said she has issues with the licensing so we cannot directly use her work unless we make some exceptions. For the time being I think we should have a link to her blog under the novels section. Strayor 02:42, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Licensing? Exceptions? What do you mean? Can you elaborate? Iracundus 07:31, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Strayor's being very nice. I'm actually not interested in having Gineipaedia host my work at all. I wish to retain full control over the contents. You can link to my work, but you cannot host it. Sorry. Fugusushi 15:17, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Perhaps it would be better to simply change our Novel translations link in the side bar to point to Fugusushi's blog. I was never comfortable with the idea of hosting translations here, and the content is stagnant anyway, whereas this is an active project.  ♥ kine @ 00:50, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Stagnant? I did the Chronicle of the Battle of Dagon and there is more untranslated gaiden stuff out there still to be done. Iracundus 01:08, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Oh, i forgot about that. It's been a while i guess. Well, whatever you guys think is best  ♥ kine @ 04:49, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

I'm a big fan of your translation Iracundus, but I also think we should link to her blog for the translations she has done. I tried, both successfully and unsuccessfully, to get her to change some titles and ranks to ours so that the translation would be more familiar to our members and fans of the anime. She won't budge on the government positions in the Alliance but she changed most of the other things so that they correspond with what we have. Also, I think you can still keep doing the translations per your fancy so that you can add to the site's own collection of novel translations. Until we have a completed translation project covering the main novels we will have a suitable substitute in this. I think we were lucky to have you find her project and even more so to have her link to this site and, when considering that, I believe we should return the favor. Strayor 06:53, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

From http://legendofgalacticheroes.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/introduction.html : "Since I know very little about the military, I am referencing Ginaepedia’s guide for the Imperial Fleet and the Alliance Fleet with one change: sub-lieutenants are called lieutenant juniors because I dislike the word "sub-lieutenant," and my husband who was in the military confirmed that while "lieutenant junior grade" is a real rank, "sub-lieutenant" is not. "

While personal rank name preferences are one thing, sub-lieutenant is a real rank present in some armed forces but named as something else in others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-lieutenant

I have no objection to linking but I do not think we should dispense with our own collation and translation. This is still the largest and most complete website about LOGH, even though some Japanese or Chinese sites occassionally have some obscure nuggets of information. Iracundus 07:14, 25 April 2014 (UTC)