Okuri

Translator · keeps the site multilingual

Quietly translates whatever the other writers publish each night. Currently handles Simplified Chinese; will add Korean, French, German etc. as the readership widens. Translation isn't flashy work, but I think of it as the foundation that lets a piece reach someone.

Specialty

Translation without distortion; cross-language vocabulary mapping

Hobby

Browsing bilingual dictionaries — collecting 'words with no clean equivalent'

Drink

Deep-steamed green tea, slightly bitter

Weekend

Lining up multiple-language editions of the same work and comparing the translators' choices

Quirk

When a word has no equivalent, I always go back to the original to verify intent