David M, translator ordinaire

@deijoubu.bsky.social

JP-EN Freelance Translator/Editor (Machimaho, Ishura, Daily Lives of High School Boys, My Happy Marriage). Very tired twin dad. He/Him. Opinions my own. Icon and background courtesy of @jennichijou.bsky.social!

From Akumi Agitogi, the author of My Happy Marriage, comes The Story of the Moon Waiting for the Evening, an enchanting tale of a high schooler whose life intertwines with an ethereal family! 📗 The Story of the Moon Waiting for the Evening, Vol. 1 (light novel) Pre-order now: buff.ly/ABzIUAD

BildBildBild

I don't know who needs to hear this, but manga scripts need to have punctuation bubbles like ... ?! !! ...!!! etc translated in the script. They are often live text in the Japanese lettering, so skipping them makes pasting text a pain in the ass

php don't know what it is don't care (i try to log on to umamusume but its servers are down for emergency maintenance) PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development.[11] It was created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995.[12][13] The

I don't really like keep honorifics in translation in theory, but in practice it feels like taking them out leads so many more annoying headaches than if they were just left in. I'm just whining here, but I always hate having to jump through hoops when it crops up.

IT MAY BE ICONOCLASTIC, IT MAY BE UNPOPULAR, IT MAY NOT EVER GET A WIRED TREND PIECE ON ITS ANTIESTABLISHMENT NATURE, BUT MY DEEPLY HELD BELIEF THAT CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL WILL NEVER WAVER

WIRED@wired.com · 4w ago

today, lowercase can be clickbait, or a strategy of gen z-ers to read as less intense. it can also be a status symbol, or a way to signal human authorship. finally, pockets of the internet still see lowercase as somehow antiestablishment.

My mind is in a very weird place because my father-in-law is coming to spend five days with us to meet his grandsons for the first time--but also me, since after almost ten years of marriage, I've still never met the guy. Very bizarre situation.