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| Not much to say, my name’s Daniel Lofthouse, i’m 17 years old and living in Australia. I love the Light Novel style of pictures and plotline rather than cloggy page-long descriptions, and i'll read anything so long as it has some elements of super-natural/magic and romance.
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| I’m extremely proficient in English (native language), skilled in Greek (learnt it for 4 years in High School) and familiar with Japanese (after some 2500 anime episodes). I'm trying to learn the language but still waiting on the book ‘Remembering The Kanji’ to arrive.
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| I'm a Proof-reader, Editor and NEET-freak. I read the Light Novels and make sure it’s perfect for the next reader. I've made some software edits on my laptop so I can type the proper apostrophe’s 「‘’」 and quotation marks 「“”」. It is my duty to protect them from abuse.
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| == Protecting them from abuse ==
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| When I proof-read and have to change 「"」 & 「'」 to 「‘’」 & 「“”」, I follow a little formula that’s quite helpful.
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| # Read the Chapter and write down any Typos/broken English in Notepad.
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| # Fix the Typos.
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| # Scroll through the whole thing and wherever there is dialogue (someone talking), change 「"example"」 to 「“example”」.
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| # Scroll through the whole thing again and change any remaining 「"example"」 to 「‘Example’」 (use your own judgement if 「‘’」 is not right). (IMPORTANT: Don't change 「"」 if it’s part of a reference or link)
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| # Scroll through the whole thing again and change any 「'」 to whatever they should be, but leave it if it’s supposed to be 「’」 (e.g. don’t change: 「she's」 or the 2nd 「'」 on 'example')
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| # Copy the whole thing into Microsoft Word
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| # Use CTRL+H to replace any italic/bold formatting (「2x '」, 「3x '」, and 「5x '」) with 「italic@@」, 「bold@@@」 and 「italbold@@@@@」 respectively.
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| # Use CTRL+H to replace all remaining 「'」 with 「’」
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| # Use CTRL+H to undo Step 7.
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| # Paste the whole thing back into Baka-Tsuki and submit.
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| # Check to make sure everything is ok. Use CTRL+F to find 「‘」 and 「“」, and skim through the yellow blocks to make sure 「‘’」 & 「“”」 aren't the wrong way around anywhere.
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| == Damsels in distress saved ==
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| * Toaru Majutsu no Index (V3 - V6)
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| * The World Only God Knows (V1 - V2)
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| * Hidan no Aria (V1 - rescue ongoing)
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