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General TLC for Aux Brigades

Post by KuroiHikari »

Post lines that seem wrong and need checking, or lines that are hard to understand or not clear. .
This is for all topics in the Auxiliary Brigades.
Everyone is welcome to help out.

Note: do include the page number or the text.

Things to provide:

Weird line
Original Text or page no to original text.
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Re: General TLC for Aux Brigades

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Wrong as in Grammar ? Meaning ? Translation ? Or when the sentence is right, but sounds wrong ?
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Re: General TLC for Aux Brigades

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Anything open to misinterpretation, and, thus, require source-based checking.
There are things like passive and active voice that some people tend to get mixed up with.
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Re: General TLC for Aux Brigades

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Not an Aux Brid, not TLC.

But any idea? http://prntscr.com/1x1z5k

If there's a specific post for this, do redirect me. (I tried #campione but people were inactive so yeah.)
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Re: General TLC for Aux Brigades

Post by Rohan123 »

MineRiko wrote:Not an Aux Brid, not TLC.

But any idea? http://prntscr.com/1x1z5k

If there's a specific post for this, do redirect me. (I tried #campione but people were inactive so yeah.)
If you're asking for help to translate that(which I assume is what you are asking for), then this topic would probably be better for that purpose.
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Re: General TLC for Aux Brigades

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well then, is there any way to make this sound better:
Since you don't know shops any that sell clothes that suit you, just quietly follow behind me.
It's from OreImo Volume 12 chapter 1; it's technically not incorrect, but I wonder if there is any way for it to sound better?
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deathmailrock wrote:well then, is there any way to make this sound better:
Since you don't know shops any that sell clothes that suit you, just quietly follow behind me.
It's from OreImo Volume 12 chapter 1; it's technically not incorrect, but I wonder if there is any way for it to sound better?
This seems like a question of editing, not TLCing. Just in case that this is still relevant:

"Since you don't know any shops (which) sell(ing) clothes that suit you, just follow quietly behind me."
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Re: General TLC for Aux Brigades

Post by KuroiHikari »

Bump

And do note, you have to provide some reference to the source text, or even the source text, which is even better.
Cuz, I'm not going to go through 1 whole chapter for a line.

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Also do post the suspected flawed line
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cheers guy, I'll be occupying this thread a bit more frequently, as I'm starting to torture readers with my translations. :mrgreen:
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This means something like "putting the kettle", which is supposed to be a proverb, I guess? What's its meaning? I tried googling it and there was something like "to directly tell the truth" and "to distract". It were Japanese sources so I may also be wrong about that. :roll:
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かまを掛け means to ask a leading question/trick someone into revealing the truth
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