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fun with searching my author name on the internet
I've figured out that if I go to www.delicious.com -- which is a fairly widely used bookmarking site -- and type in my fanfiction author name, I get a list of my stories that have been bookmarked by other people. My results?
-- 5 for "Fallacy Somewhere"
-- 3 for "Upgrade" (my Yuletide Red Dwarf story)
-- 2 for "Miles from Aberdeen"
-- 2 for "Rosemary" (that was a surprise; I'm fond of it, but it's not one of my more favorited stories on Teaspoon)
-- 1 for "Turn Again" (and yeah, I need to FINISH that)
-- 1 for "Nameless"
-- 1 for "Break of Day"
You guys should all try it for your own author names -- it's fun!
And speaking of my fic "Break of Day," you will never guess what I came across while doing random Google searches on my author name:
Someone has actually translated my fic into Russian! No, really!
I'm just completely blown away that someone went to the trouble to translate one of my fics. It is quite possibly the most awesome thing I have ever come across on the internet. The translation even requires a footnote since I put in a silly aunt/ant joke that doesn't work in Russian. (Truthfully, it probably doesn't even work that well in a British accent, but I put it in anyway.)
I've back-translated the story using Yahoo Babel Fish, which was oddly surreal but also quite amusing, as Babel Fish has its issues with translation. As an example, here's the first sentence of my fic:
It was a pounding on her door, and it was 5 a.m., two things that Sarah firmly believed should never go together.
And here's the first sentence of the back-translation:
Were five mornings, and into the door it loudly, and Sarah it solidly believed that these two things never must occur simultaneously.
And it goes on from there . . . Here's my favorite sentence:
"Sarah!" - it sufficiently exclaimed, as if recently took out it of the hat as rabbit.
Anyway, I'm just thrilled that someone went to all the trouble to translate the story, and I'm sure it was a marvelous job. _Наблюдатель, if you're out there reading this, you've made my week. :D
-- 5 for "Fallacy Somewhere"
-- 3 for "Upgrade" (my Yuletide Red Dwarf story)
-- 2 for "Miles from Aberdeen"
-- 2 for "Rosemary" (that was a surprise; I'm fond of it, but it's not one of my more favorited stories on Teaspoon)
-- 1 for "Turn Again" (and yeah, I need to FINISH that)
-- 1 for "Nameless"
-- 1 for "Break of Day"
You guys should all try it for your own author names -- it's fun!
And speaking of my fic "Break of Day," you will never guess what I came across while doing random Google searches on my author name:
Someone has actually translated my fic into Russian! No, really!
I'm just completely blown away that someone went to the trouble to translate one of my fics. It is quite possibly the most awesome thing I have ever come across on the internet. The translation even requires a footnote since I put in a silly aunt/ant joke that doesn't work in Russian. (Truthfully, it probably doesn't even work that well in a British accent, but I put it in anyway.)
I've back-translated the story using Yahoo Babel Fish, which was oddly surreal but also quite amusing, as Babel Fish has its issues with translation. As an example, here's the first sentence of my fic:
It was a pounding on her door, and it was 5 a.m., two things that Sarah firmly believed should never go together.
And here's the first sentence of the back-translation:
Were five mornings, and into the door it loudly, and Sarah it solidly believed that these two things never must occur simultaneously.
And it goes on from there . . . Here's my favorite sentence:
"Sarah!" - it sufficiently exclaimed, as if recently took out it of the hat as rabbit.
Anyway, I'm just thrilled that someone went to all the trouble to translate the story, and I'm sure it was a marvelous job. _Наблюдатель, if you're out there reading this, you've made my week. :D
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Sorry it was such a creep-inducing exercise for you! Did you at least get any pleasant surprises, too? Any popular fics or posts, or previously unknown reviews / recs / translations of your fic?
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