elliemurasaki: Felicia Day as Charlie Bradbury on Supernatural, caption "dance like no-one is watching" (Supernatural dance like no one is watchi)our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost ([personal profile] elliemurasaki) wrote,
@ 2012-12-30 09:23 pm UTC
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I have officially broke down and Google Translated a fic.

The pairing I want to read just now, there's three fics on AO3. One is a/b/o. Do not presently want. One I wrote. Do not presently want. And I don't know anyone who speaks Russian well enough to say 'here is a ficlet in Russian, make it English' and also that would require the author's approval.

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snickfic: (Xander latin)


[personal profile] snickfic
2012-12-31 02:39 am UTC (link)
Well, now I want to know what pairing it is so I can go read the a/b/o. :D

I do recall Google Translating a fic from Russian, ages ago. And every so often I'll reading something in Spanish, just for practice.

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elliemurasaki: Felicia Day as Charlie Bradbury on Supernatural, caption "dance like no-one is watching" (Supernatural dance like no one is watchi)


[personal profile] elliemurasaki
2012-12-31 02:47 am UTC (link)
Um.

You wrote it.

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snickfic: (Dru, Dru who me)


[personal profile] snickfic
2012-12-31 02:51 am UTC (link)
Ha ha! I had to think a minute to figure out which pairing that would be. Alas, no new a/b/o for me. I am intrigued by the pairing, though - was the Russian one any good?

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[personal profile] elliemurasaki
2012-12-31 02:57 am UTC (link)
Concept's good. No idea about execution, because the machine translate has of course fucked it all to hell. Google doesn't even know all the words.

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sharpest_asp: Black and white art of a hissing snake arounda dagger (General: Snake Knife)


[personal profile] sharpest_asp
2012-12-31 03:01 am UTC (link)
I've done that. It's a sloppy way to get new fic, but sometimes a pairing or fandom just itches at me until I translate the fic. And most of them do tend to be in Cyrillic of some kind, so it fails to carry context

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[personal profile] seekergeek
2012-12-31 10:59 pm UTC (link)
Ha! *HIGH FIVES YOU* I did that just the other day with a crossover fic that I JUST. HAD. TO. READ. that was written in German. The translation was hideous, but I read it anyways.

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