Going crazy by degrees...
May. 23rd, 2009 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgp... and minutes, and seconds of arc.
I am almost to the point where I am about to revive an old technique I used back when everything was strange and new to me, and that was to create individual nonsense terms (I remember one was 'trrbda', which stood for 'ta-ra-ra-boom-dee-ay!') for source terms that had me mystified.
The idea was that, by the end of the translation, I would either know what these various 'terms' were actually supposed to be or I would have some pretty good guesses lined up, whereupon I would undertake a flurry of search and replace operations to get rid of the made-up terms. That way, at least, any of my guesses that were wrong would be relatively easy to fix, since I was (and remain) pretty religious about keeping terms used in translations non-foolishly consistent.
After this morning's productivity, my pace now is pitiful. But that's no reason to get discouraged.
Cheers...
I am almost to the point where I am about to revive an old technique I used back when everything was strange and new to me, and that was to create individual nonsense terms (I remember one was 'trrbda', which stood for 'ta-ra-ra-boom-dee-ay!') for source terms that had me mystified.
The idea was that, by the end of the translation, I would either know what these various 'terms' were actually supposed to be or I would have some pretty good guesses lined up, whereupon I would undertake a flurry of search and replace operations to get rid of the made-up terms. That way, at least, any of my guesses that were wrong would be relatively easy to fix, since I was (and remain) pretty religious about keeping terms used in translations non-foolishly consistent.
After this morning's productivity, my pace now is pitiful. But that's no reason to get discouraged.
Cheers...
