Recent content by DschingisKhan

I'm glad we ultimately agree on the original topic, but I have reservations about some of this post... If you don't translate the text in a way that conveys the meaning, it's a bad translation. You say this, but they don't actually work THAT differently in practice. A lot of the difficulty...

Sounds like the origin is lazy translators, then, and other people are copying that. Huh. I hadn't realised the problem ran quite so deep. Thanks. Yes. Setting aside the fact that it just looks strange and makes reading harder, it almost completely robs you, the author, of your ability to add...

I've seen a fair number of stories at this point with a similar quirk. - Specifically, one where dialogue looks like this (Khan) That is, there's no quotation marks but instead a leading hyphen. In lieu of useful tags, the name of the character is just lazily slapped into parentheses at the...

Living on both sides of this equation, I've always found it difficult to get a solid grasp of how readers are thinking of my work, so I'll often leave comments that contain questions about the developing plot, characters, world, etc. These questions aren't generally asked so they can be...