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Originally Posted by zoomzoom
And yea, Melrose is entitled to criticize all he wants, but he wasn't. He. Was. Helping. Some people are just too full of themselves to take any help, when they clearly need it.
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I think everybody who has commented on this issue so far agrees Melrose made his comments with the good intention of clarifying vague or weird parts of alternarist's translation, and so do I. However, I've also observed that tension only developed after
post 103, in which he pointed out, one by one, parts which he felt should be corrected for better understandability.
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Originally Posted by AyUmIXx
well... if someone is willing to help them to translate, please PM them which parts that seem weird or hard to understand, but of course, that someone needs to read and understand the whole documentary or maybe watching it first before giving your critical views over somebody's translations on the thread.
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I quite agree with AyUmIXx. While Melrose was and still is entitled to make constructive criticism, I feel he could have definitely been more subtle and polite about it. I've read the post in question several times, but each time his tone seemed to be unnecessarily interrogative and know-it-all, which would be quite unwelcome to anybody sharing his work. A good example would be:
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Originally Posted by Melrose
Are you sure she said that? lol
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That his profile indicates he is in the Netherlands and therefore probably, like alternarist, not a native English speaker, does not really help his case. Regardless of whether Melrose intended to be rude, I think he could have made a greater effort to be as civil as he initially was. Many of the users here for either side of the argument could have been more polite, too.
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Originally Posted by AyUmIXx
*peace ok?*
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Well said! I respect alternarist's decision to withdraw his translation of the AT07 documentary, and hope he shares more of his work in future. Many thanks to prussian_blue and leo_nardez as well. To everyone else who edited or suggested improvements, please keep doing so! It is much appreciated and definitely for the good of this international Ayu fan community. Cheers.
