In my everyday life, I tend to use emojis and all caps the most. I love texting with emojis, and now Apple has these things called ‘memojis’ which is basically an emoji avatar you can design to look like you. They are perfect for when I either don’t have words for a response but feel like I have to respond and when I am going nonverbal and feel like I can’t talk or text. I also use all caps at least once a day. I don’t talk to everyone I’m friends with or my family every day, but the one person I do talk to is my best friend Lexie and our lives are so crazy that we always find a way to use caps. There is no normal day for us. Gifs and memes I don’t use them often, but I do use them. Honestly, my sibling uses them a lot more than me and will literally not respond to my texts with words but instead uses memes. I once asked if they were in the hospital, and they sent me a meme of a cat rolling on the ground. I also use slang words a lot such as ‘FR’ (for real,) ‘BFFR’ (be effing for real) ‘Slay,’ and other well-known slang words. Throughout translation, I found that emojis were one of the most useful tools to help me. It’s because emojis are a replacement for words but in a different way than GIFS. Emojis are very simple, unlike GIFS, and allow the image to speak for itself the same emoji could be used to mean different things depending on the context while GIFS are a bit more straightforward.
Honestly, this was the funniest assignment I ever had for a writing class. I really didn’t find anything to be difficult, and maybe that would change if I translated more of the text, but it was so fun to do! It flowed so easily, and I didn’t have to stop and think about it. I had the text and my google doc side by side and the translations came so easily to me. It was like I had done this before and knew exactly what to say. And, I haven’t read Kurt Vonnegut since high school, so it wasn’t a recent text I had or was extremely familiar with. I’m not even a huge Vonnegut fan and am very critical of his stuff and while he’s written masterpieces, there are a lot of aspects I don’t like. So, it wasn’t even a novel that I enjoyed or enjoyed. But I got SO into it that I almost caved and reread the novel. It made me interested again. I don’t think there was anything I couldn’t translate or that got ‘lost.’. But it is a different vibe than the original novel. And like anything that involves slang and texting language, there might be some stuff that confuses one person but doesn’t confuse another and vice versa just because everyone is on different parts of the internet and has different cultural experiences online.
The translated version improves the original text in one way: HUMOR. Slaughterhouse-Five is funny in a sarcastic, paradoxical sense of humor way while my translation was more outright funny. My version was funnier in a modern humor way, that involves a lot more online cultural references. It introduces the concept of simplicity because I defiantly simplified my translation to make it more understandable and readable. My favorite part to translate was ALL OF IT but I was proud of translating it goes’ into ‘it be like that,’ the most.
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