#multilingual writing

[disorganizedkitten]

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Chapters: 5/31 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Miraculous Ladybug Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug & Jason Todd Characters: Jason Todd, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug Additional Tags: That one brotp tag I can't use for swearing, Maribat March 2022, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug & Jason Todd Are Siblings, MariBat, Timeline What Timeline, Post-Batman: A Death in the Family, Pre-Season/Series 01, For all it's worth when I ignore seventy percent of canon, Adopted Sibling Relationships, Kid Fic, Language Barrier, Multilingual Character, Multilingual Dialogue, Latino Jason Todd, Lazarus Pits, Making up my own lazarus lore for the sake of it Summary:

Maribat May 2022 - During his first bout of Lazarus rage, Jason manages to escape the League of Assassins. Traumatized, confused, and on the run, he ends up in Paris, France.

[creations-of-a-certain-no-one]

Multilingual writer's mood

I need to translate it.

*tries to translate but stumbles on puns and style*

This is untranslatable.

Alternatively: I translated it but. Gods, it sounds so bad. How can it sound so great in original and so cheesy/oversimplied in the translation.

Okay let's try writing something new.

I have this brand new wonderful idea! ...but only in German.

I have literally no idea why I have a very different writing style in each language.

But sometimes dear brain just decides this paragraph would sound much better in another language. Now translate it all while writing and see yourself fail.

Heck, I make different plots in each language, because stylistically they'd look better written in this but not that language. Too bad that in this other language I don't have a betareader. Or fandom.

Puns.

[ambitiousvagueness]

All of a sudden I felt a . . . presencia. I know, ya sé. It sounds a bit cheesy and sci fi, but I dón't knów how (outside the wormhole) to descríbe it to you. How to make it make sense. A tiny fluttering presencia. As if it were a heart with wings. Aye: a winged heartbeat. I knów it sounds crazy, but stay with me. I stood frozen, broom in hand, watching that winged presencia, and I understood that it was a hummingbird. Seeing and understanding hit me sequentially, almost simultáneamente, but not quite. I couldn't—quite—believe my eyes.

All Green Will Endure Chrónicle Susana Chávez-Silverman translated from the Spanish and the English by Ellen Jones