kficanon ([personal profile] kficanon) wrote2012-10-19 02:36 pm
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(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
i hate it sfm urgh if you want to write chinese dialogue, write the entire fic in chinese. this is my biggest pet peeve

also the ~asian tourist stereotype~ didn't go down well for me

(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
i just scanned it super quick and noticed the random chinese in there so idk about your second point (yet) but YEAH lmao i hate that shit. ANY usage of a foreign language without proper context/translations will always irk me :|||and not even just in fanfic but also in regular fiction

(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
exactly. and of course there will be words that cannot be translated like 'hyung' or 'unnie' but at least they're romanized. titles in korean/chinese are bad enough, but put it in dialogue and you're dead to me lol

(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
some published authors do it all the time but it's for a different effect i think than you often see in fic

(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
yeah like i'm fine with people like sandra cisneros for instance, or amy tan in the joy luck club—i'm okay when they use it because their work is so often mired in these other cultures and want to reflect them in a way that often needs the introduction of the mother tongue of these characters

but the other day i read this cheever short story where there was just this huge paragraph of untranslated french smack in the middle of the story AND I GOT SO ANNOYED LMAO like w h y did you think that was at all necessary, dude?! like i took french in hs so i could marginally parse what it meant but i was nhft

(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
haha yeah it totally depends on the context of the piece itself and what the author is going for. one interesting thing about exo fandom is it does seem like a lot of fans know chinese so i can sort of understand why they'd be tempted to insert some of that in there. on the other hand though, not when it's easily translatable.

(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
dda and +1

(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
oops author anon here and i meant to include a < annotate > tag for the english but i forgot when i rushed to send it. i kind of did it on purpose but i feel a little uncomfortable (cheating?) explaining myself before voting so ):

(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
lol qt author anon

(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
my failure to get what i wanted to across is obviously my failure within the drabble itself so ;;

(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
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(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
da and ugh that asian tourist thing made me side-eye so hard

(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
yeah i thought the random chinese in it couldn't get worse...it did

(Anonymous) 2012-10-20 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
i guess it's a really common thing to joke about here (high concentration of overseas asians) so it really didn't click that it might be that bad. sorry.
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