And so it begins... :P

Yay! Thank you! ^_^ I'll give you a few days first to recover though. :P It sounded like you had quite a bit of writing to take care of with your classes.

Thanks! ^_^ I was wondering if I could get you to work on the first anime episode translation once I finish changing a couple of things actually (esp. where Shouka works). I'd like to have some content in "nice" form before opening the section up and all the links are now set up and in place I think (just not ULed yet). I'll post a note when I fix those wordings. ^_^

I'm not sure how you want to do this. Could you let me know your e-mail addy?

Mine's: tsujirimaccha @ yahoo . ca

The pre-edit version has been ULed to the site at:

http://shadow.randomfandom.com/saiunkoku/saiun_01.htm

if you're willing to work from an online version. Mostly, I've been working with the html at the same time as writing down the translations so... *shrug* I can also strip the html and boot you a straight text version. ^_^

Some things to keep track of would be:
- 4 ministries, 6 departments, not the other way
- head of the department = Senior Secretary; second = Vice Sec.
- archives not treasury for where Shouka works. (decided to go with the more precise place)

Cheers! ^_^

Wai! *glomp* I'll definitely take advantage of that. ^^; The novel translation isn't looking very pretty at the moment (actually it's looking down right scary) because of the difference in writing styles between the two languages. >_<;; I'm currently trying to write up translations for part 1 and 3 to the novel (3 is in horrific condition at the moment) and would like to get up to part 1 finished before opening that section up openly. Here again, as soon as I've checked over Shouka's job and work place, if you could take care of editing the Prologue, I'd really appreciate it.

I'm not sure how to break up editing for the actual novel parts as yet, but I'm thinking of maybe trying editing team style for the novels and possibly the same for the anime eps. The novel parts can be quite long and I think it would be a lot of work for one person to do one part. :?

More later for the novels. ^_^

*laughs* That's okay. A friend once told me she went into science (bio) to *avoid* English not realising that you had to write well to write papers. :P

I'll be posting a link there once things are tidied up a bit more. ^_^ Believe me when I say that parts of that section are downright horrifying. ^^;;

^^;; I actually deleted the Ayu version of ep 1 shortly after DLing the We Suck version because there are a number of errors in the translation so I'm not entirely sure what they said about the government structure. As it is, I've already done some hunting and... yeah. It's not so nice as to match neatly. *sigh* Chinese government was split into 3 departments with 6 ministries whereas the J words put it into 3 (4 for the actual story) ministries with 6 departments. And of course the titles for the people in positions of power just couldn't be consistent... >_<; *grumble* :P

Anyhow, just thought you might like to know that I'm slowly picking my way through part 3 of the novel for all that it's in shocking disarray and in pieces (literally). Hopefully it'll look good once it's been pulled together and gone through editing. ^^;

"A convert"...... ohhhhh yeah, I guess you could say that. ^^;; *hugs* Hope you're doing well. I've been vanishing off and on getting lost in the novels (haven't read too much beyond #4 since I really want to read #3 before moving on really) and working on scribbling down bits and pieces of translations.

Yay! Thank you so much for offering to help! *glomp* We'll see how things go, but there's a lot of work that needs to be done especially with the novels so I might be knocking on your door asking for help. ^_^ I'm thinking about seeing if it can be team edited since it really is too much for one person IMO.