Abe no Nakamaro's letters to Li Bai: Revision history

26 March 2023

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25 March 2023

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14 January 2023

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16 December 2022

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30 October 2022

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1 August 2022

• curprev 18:1418:14, 1 August 2022‎ imported>Soranin‎ 44,636 bytes +118‎ To better differentiate from the parts of the letter, i found it best to have the actions that happened in the dialog sections also in itallics and indented cin gbere le

18 July 2022

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13 July 2022

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12 July 2022

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• curprev 08:5908:59, 12 July 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 44,455 bytes +9,825‎ The 5th letter is complicated since it is used as narration for the entire Chapter 36, interspersed with actual scenes of the events. It also doesn't flow as naturally as a letter, but Nakamaro addressing Li Bai towards the end indicates it's actually still a letter to him. I would need some help formatting it because I want to clearly delineate Abe no Nakamaro's actual writing from the scenes. / There are some footnotes to add later, such as clarification on dates mentioned. cin gbere le

6 July 2022

• curprev 21:2721:27, 6 July 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 34,630 bytes −3‎ →‎Letters: The Chinese text uses two different terms for 'forget' here, and I don't like the repetition in English using 'forget' twice. I think changing it to 'neglect' here makes the whole sentence sound better. cin gbere le

4 July 2022

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3 July 2022

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30 June 2022

• curprev 03:3403:34, 30 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ m 34,643 bytes −2‎ I was like why doesn't this sound quite natural XD. Again pardon for chain edits. I am just coming back to this from time to time to make quick checks to polish the text while I'm busy with other stuff. cin gbere le
• curprev 00:5200:52, 30 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ m 34,645 bytes 0‎ →‎Letters: So now this is kind of funny. I meant "honey in mouth" not "mouth in honey". cin gbere le

29 June 2022

• curprev 23:4723:47, 29 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 34,645 bytes −5‎ Note about my prev. edit summary: I may have been wrong about "Master Jianzhen" being one inseparable name in Chinese. I come from a Buddhist family & that was just how I interpreted the names of the monks I have met. / Distinction b/w OotA and Templars, Assassins & Hidden Ones have become confusing again. cin gbere le
• curprev 20:3020:30, 29 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 34,650 bytes −2‎ It looks neater for "Master" to be included in the link. Also in thr Chinese, "Master Jianzhen" is kind of an inseparable term/name. Idk why English practice isolates "Jianzhen". / I'm not confident that archaic order of slavery is meant to directly refer to the New World Order. That might be up for interpretation. I removed the link just to be safe, but I don't strictly mind it. cin gbere le
• curprev 19:4519:45, 29 June 2022‎ imported>Darman36‎ 34,652 bytes +56‎ Damn, Nakamaro writes long letters! These are in the plain manhua pgs? They all look so incredibly short cin gbere le
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• curprev 10:5310:53, 29 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 34,574 bytes +13,440‎ Have not finished proofreading and reviewing this 4th letter. Specifically there are a few lines in the last page I may still have to tweak. But I have been working on this for more than a week and have been impatient (and excited) to publish it. cin gbere le

19 June 2022

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• curprev 09:5209:52, 19 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 21,132 bytes −5‎ →‎Letters: So "mouth stuffed with clay" threw me off. I thought it was figuratively just saying "keep quiet about something", but then I realized it didn't make sense in the sentence. After some searching, I was only able to find some brief mention of this being a method of pleading the emperor historically... does this mean that she literally stuffed her mouth with clay? If anyone understands this better, feel free to let me know. cin gbere le
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• curprev 03:2303:23, 19 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 21,103 bytes +8,752‎ To this day, I still don't know if you can say "a man gave birth with a woman" in English. / TIL that "comprised of" is wrong English lol ;-; ... / I had some other translation notes I wanted to share, but I am in a hurry & don't have time to recall them atm. I will double-check the translation more closely later. cin gbere le

18 June 2022

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• curprev 05:3905:39, 18 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 12,357 bytes −8‎ →‎Letters: weird mistake to make cin gbere le
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• curprev 03:2703:27, 18 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 12,375 bytes −4‎ →‎Letters: the literal "encountered an attack" sounds weird in English from the perspective of the group being attacked cin gbere le
• curprev 03:2103:21, 18 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 12,379 bytes −5‎ →‎Letters: Wait no it wasn't an extra page. I'm so clumsy. cin gbere le
• curprev 03:1803:18, 18 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 12,384 bytes +292‎ →‎Letters: Wow i missed a page cin gbere le
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• curprev 03:0203:02, 18 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 12,096 bytes +5,442‎ Added letter #2. / I am considering translating 大人 to "sir" or "mister" instead of "lord" because I am afraid "lord" in English indicates too much of a subordinate position for Abe no Nakamaro with a friend like Li Bai. Maybe 大人 in old days is closer to 先生 now? But "Sir" might imply knighthood, "Mister" and "Sir Fujiwara no Kiyokawa" sounds weird to me compared to "Lord Fujiwara" & Fujiwara was an actual noble. But the same title of address is used for Li Bai, who is a personal, close friend. cin gbere le

17 June 2022

• curprev 06:5706:57, 17 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 6,654 bytes +16‎ Also I don't know about putting the "conjecture" notice. It feels a little weird to me since the page is technically our own compilation of the letters together, it's pretty much certain there will never be an official name for these letters packaged together, and the descriptive title is just saying exactly what this is. / I'm also not sure how about nesting all the letters like this. It might be more accessible just to split off each letter as its own section. cin gbere le
• curprev 06:5206:52, 17 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 6,638 bytes +103‎ We are always allowed to relink in a new section and deciding to do so depends on whether we think it would be convenient or not. I specifically wanted to start the round of links again per letter. / I am not sure if I am comfortable with making the normal text italicized. I was going off of War Letters & Altaïr's Codex which don't italicize. / At the current stage of constructing this page, it makes more sense to just give the source for the whole page as Dynasty. cin gbere le
• curprev 06:3606:36, 17 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ m 6,535 bytes −400‎ Reverted edits by Darman36 (talk) to last revision by Sol Pacificus cin gbere le
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• curprev 06:3006:30, 17 June 2022‎ imported>Darman36‎ 6,920 bytes +385‎ Prep for more letters, following italics and ref format of other in-universe docs like Eivor's notes. I believe we don't double link if not super long pg eg. Ezio, yes? Can revert if otherwise. cin gbere le
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• curprev 03:2203:22, 17 June 2022‎ imported>Sol Pacificus‎ 6,512 bytes +6,512‎ I haven't figured out how best to format this just yet or where to cite the chapter.