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Date Posted: 08:51:25 04/07/25 Mon
Author: AusNick
Author Host/IP: 1.43.214.67
Subject: Done!
In reply to: AusNick 's message, "Russian version GTG, working on English translation…fun…" on 03:48:36 04/07/25 Mon

Plugged away at it all night. It's now 1:30 AM.

It's as close to the original as I can get. The images pasted in a little larger than the source document, but that's fine, you get to see more detail. I also used my standard 16 point font size, makes things easier to read. You're going to need it. So of course the page count blew out.

I probably could have saved a few pages if I'd gone with a different layout, but I did want the translation to match the original. And because the images are placed as they are, and are a little larger, there's a bit more white space on some pages than I would have liked. Sorry about that.

Was going to write a Foreword, but I honestly can't be stuffed, and I'd only bitch about the work anyway, so I'll spare your eyeballs that. I can bitch about it here.

It's a far from perfect translation, Google still sucks at it.

Thought I am satisfied with the result, despite being held up by a small spreadsheet concerning (circa 2010) Airport smoking in Russia, I had to cut and paste all of it to Google translate and back, into a spreadsheet, which I managed to fit on one page.

I'll do the build and call it a night, drop the links probably tomorrow.

Despite the haphazard translation, it is an interesting read, though for me it felt like 2005 all over again.

I honestly thought I'd never have to deal with SbD again, but here we are.

Nick

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  • Re: Russian version GTG, working on English translation…fun… -- RuEmerald, 17:12:28 04/08/25 Tue
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