Steps to Love TL Progress (End of May)
Added 2020-05-29 23:01:00 +0000 UTC46 percent of the Noe route has been translated.
I've started getting into the early/mid-range of the story, which I always knew was going to be a tricky part. It's key for several reasons. Without getting into spoilers, let me just say I've been thinking about intentionality lately. I'm just as vulnerable to typos as anyone else, but there's an extra way one can typo-proof scripts. If, say, a character is doing a muffled grunt (grunF) or a slurred word (Yesh), it's good practice to make sure at least two letters in the word are wrong somehow. In the above two cases, (grunMF) or (Yessh) make it a little easier for the "Is this a typo?" part of your brain to read that oh, okay, this was an intentional change for effect. There's a fair amount of discretion translators have in that regard so long as they don't get too ridiculous. On the flip side, it is most definitely possible to waste too much time on aspects most won't care too much about, so that's a fun balancing act.
In addition to sound effects and word choices, there's one other thing in Noe's StL route I'm trying practice intentionality on. Regardless of whether or not readers pick it up, it does feel like it's helping the dialogue continue to flow at a brisk pace.
