>>>/vg/586965106 >The current translation is by Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5), and the local one is by PLaMo 3 Translate 31B (Q4_K_M, run with llama.cpp). Accuracy is a clear step up from the 8B: about 96% of lines keep the source meaning, and it fixes most of the 8B’s colloquial misreadings. あかねえ is now “the door wouldn’t budge”, ギラギラ is “fierce, glinting gaze”, and the officer is the one who “should have been calming things down”. Only about three real meaning errors remain. It still has the other driver getting scolded, when the closing ひどい shows the narrator did. It adds “for the rest of my life” to the prison speculation, which the source doesn’t say. And イガイガ is still “prickly” rather than “spiked”. It also loses a few images, for example 足が棒 (“legs like sticks”) becomes “legs feel like lead”. Opus made no comparable mistakes. >The 31B handles voice better than the 8B, but it is still more formal than Opus. Recurring catchphrases are now translated the same way each time (“I can’t stand it” for both やれない), so the running jokes work. Some casual lines land well: “Take that, you damn moon!”, “a real pain”, “Whatever.” It still slips into literary or clunky phrasing (“Moreover”, “self-generating my own hope”, “a scene materializes before my eyes”, “a more sharp, cool way”), and it uses British spelling (“travellers”, “kilometres”). The overall effect is a careful translation of a casual narrator, while Opus sounds like the narrator himself. A reviewer would mostly be loosening phrasing rather than correcting meaning.

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