One time I saw a machine translation of a Korean webnovel where they changed the title/chapter titles and the description. Only realized it was one because of the constant honorifics and stiff grammar.
That was actually my first learning moment here lmfao I was like wow scribble hub authors really have a lot of the eastern writing styles down- one of my first languages is Japanese and I was like this really feels paced and stylized like a JP novel...and then I found out that was because they were actually Chinese, Japanese, or Korean novels
I have seen a few original works that did intentionally imitate these styles, like the Korean one-liner, or the Chinese style where the synopsis is mostly just dialogue and conversation, but they're few and far between. Identifying them gets natural with timeThat was actually my first learning moment here lmfao I was like wow scribble hub authors really have a lot of the eastern writing styles down- one of my first languages is Japanese and I was like this really feels paced and stylized like a JP novel...and then I found out that was because they were actually Chinese, Japanese, or Korean novels
Greetings,man my algorithm must be crazy messed up (or just not cultivated yet since I only just started using this site) because I swear almost every novel that came up in recently posted for me were all translations with no credit and I only realized after the fact
Well, a few weeks ago we had a poster who was doing an (allegedly) manual translation of a webnovel he loved in the hopes that it would take off and encourage the original author to continue rather than leaving it abandoned. Or so he claimed, but who knows, this might have been a legit motivation.
I wouldn't necessarily call that theft unless that person was trying to pass it off as their own. I mean press releases get all kinds of reprints and in different languages.
For the sites like this, the ordinary plagiarisation - borrowing plots or characters from other book - is the good plagiarisation.
Money. They do it for money.
Greedy capitalists.
Forgot all capital letters, should be, "Greedy CAPITALISTS."
Another way is if pronouns aren't consistent, or the way the story is told seems weird. The way other languages tell their stories tend to be REALLY different then English. Its especially noticeable when machine translated to English.
I mean, Xianxia novels in English are still significantly different in structure then Xianxia in Chinese
I mean as long as you have paragraphs its gonna be different.
Checked it.
Been listening to the PocketFM translation of "My Vampire System" and it is fairly common for a character to be referred to by the wrong pronoun (USUALLY female characters called by male pronouns but, in the first 600 chapters, there are at least three instances of the reverse as well). Also has a weird tendency to handle names differently - Fex is sometimes Vex or FEX and, until a second character named Borden shows up, the character Vorden was called Borden a few times (granted for about three chapters he was using that as a fake name, but it happened a lot earlier too... but seemed to vanish when there were two different characters).