Hey, Mastodon and Fediverse!
[TL;DR: help with translations 🇬🇷🇮🇩🇮🇹🇯🇵🇹🇭. Bonus: 🇫🇷🇲🇰🇳🇱]
Brief context: the past week I've shared here a few posts in languages which, to put it simply, I can't understand shit of.
I'd like to have a decent English (or Spanish) translation available, and while I'm moderately confident I can get a workable one done myself,¹ it'd be very, VERY welcome if somebody with an actual idea of what they're seeing could take a look. :3
The languages (I don't understand * of) are: Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, and Thai.
There's also Italian.
There are some older ones in French, Macedonian and Dutch which would also benefit from a review, so I'm extending this to those too. :3
[Several of the French ones ARE longish, be warned.]
There should be some German and Portuguese ones as well, but I'm not locating them. 🤔 Oh well.
This isn't a call for professionals, to be clear (I don't have budget to pay for that 🥴), but the texts aren't that long, it's a best-effort task, and it's got no strings attached, nor deadline. ^^
(Really, if you see this in two years and I'm still around, feel free to ping!)
The texts are about sex work however, most made by sex workers and all affirming towards it, so be warned if you got any issues with that (I'm guessing you'll block me outright in that case instead but… 🤷♀️).
If anyone wonders: yeah, machine translations kinda do the work, but they're terrible. 🥴 If they even work (*ahem* 🇲🇰 *ahem*).
And LLM-based ones DO hallucinate sometimes to boot. 🤦♀️ [More importantly though, they aren't an acceptable tool anyway.]
“Solutions” in these lines aren't welcome, and anyone tooting LLMs in response will actually be blocked outright — I'm looking for human-brain powered mistakes exclusively. ;3
Well, so that. If you feel like giving a hand or know somebody who could, be welcome!
Boosts are fine as well. ^~
¹ One of the languages I do more or less understand (🇮🇹), other I'm used to do this and this time did come with an official translation (🇲🇰 & yay!), a third I kind of had to do the translation already just to write it (🇹🇭 oh the pain… 😵💫), and the others at the very least I didn't have to write myself, so I trust to have a sane basis. 😅
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