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dearmyloveleys · 2 months ago

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just curious, do yall still want/are interested in another translated version of the mdzs original text? I’m fully fluent in English, love books, write fiction myself (graduated with a minor in creative writing as well), and 80% fluent in written and spoken Chinese. If I may, I can offer a more writerly/authorly + detailed (definitely not in the way of more embellished) interpretation and formatting translation of the og text which I feel that the Seven Seas ver is lacking. But I will probably need one or two others’ help in proofreading and cross checking translations!

#also #just checked back to the seven seas ver and realised there are sentences that don’t seem to be part of the og copy i have #actually lmao I can’t imagine translating the smut scenes from Chinese #save me #mdzs #mxtx #mo dao zu shi #I’ve read the translated ver before seven seas #years ago #and iirc the formatting and sentence structures were stilting #was it the exr #I think so #ngl it is time consuming for me to read Chinese texts #I can’t read quite as fast #bc my first language is english #Chinese is my mother tongue #but I love mdzs so #IM WILLING #I’m just lacking in the idioms department… so I will need help cross checking interpretations #but overall I can grasp the text #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #idk but the seven seas versions for all of mxtx’s novels don’t hit quite right for me #the texts lack depth in the way of sentence structure and phrasing #for a lack of words they feel kind of superficial at times #idk it’s a writer + translation thing for me

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