MarieMarion

3 hours each way? Would you elaborate on how that came to be? I’m flabbergasted.

I need one though.

Oh yeah baby

Sometimes I look at my life and I feel jealous of myself. Tbh I deliberately moved here (the boonies, and a leftist / alt-culture hotspot of grassroot community living), and it has its cons, but… Next week a wool felter is taking me foraging wild plants to teach me basket weaving, then I’m teaching her the basics of fermenting food (for booze, taste, or preservation), while my 10yo kid is 500km away for her country-wide robotics competition. I’m happily trapped in a caricature.

yes.

I for one am all ears. Please?

Literary translator here. An average-sized book takes 4 months to translate, and I bill around 12k€. 90% of books don’t sell enough copies for the publisher to recoup the costs. And that’s books that have been picked amond hundreds because they’re good and/or might sell. Additionally, you’d need armies of competent translators. It’s a complex skill that takes years to hone. Who would do it?