The Emoji Dick Project: Help Translate “Moby Dick” To Japanese Emoticons
New York City’s Fred Benenson has recently launched/announced the Emoji Dick project on Kick Starter.
All 6,438 sentences of Moby Dick will be translated to Japanese Emoji.
According to Benenson, here’s how it’s gonna work:
Each of Moby Dick’s 6,438 sentences will be translated 3 times by different Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. Those results will then be voted on by another set of workers, and the most popular version of each sentence will be selected for inclusion in the book.
At the Emoji Dick web sheet, you can make donations to help get the project done (as of right now, he’s got $681 of the $3,500 needed). 5 bucks gets you the raw assets and a PDF. $200 gets you a signed, limited-edition hard cover. And there are many options in between.
Here’s a couple examples of what the work will/might look like:
For more info, check out the web sheet that features a video about the project.
Looks like a cool project. WAWD will be making a contribution.
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