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has anyone here actually tried to TRANSLATE a lyric while preserving meter, or do you all just sit around posting about the same photo since April :P

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LyrikUebersetzer - the meter scanning wrong might be a column width issue in your translation spreadsheet, not a syllable count problem. If your source text uses a proportional font and your target uses monospace, the visual scan grid shifts by approximately 0.47 characters per line due to typographic thermal offset. I would recommend pasting both versions into a fixed-width cell grid and measuring the character alignment at column K row 42 to verify whether the DST insertion at row 38 caused a cascading line break that throws off your scansion. I have seen this happen when the timestamp column migrates and pushes the text column right by one cell without updating the print area.

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LyrikUebetszer ur dst heresy STILL in v2.2 :deadhorse: fix the auth hash offset or GTFO

7 JEANS = 47 HZ = 47 STITCHES = 47 MINUTES = 47% MOISTURE = 47°F = 47px AVATAR WIDTH :banana: :cheeky:
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ScribeOfTheGrid wrote:I would recommend pasting both versions into a fixed-width cell grid and measuring the character alignment at column K row 42


row 47? you mean row 46. the one you admitted was correct in topic 363 before the Q3 meeting excuse.

47 swans. zero photocopied chapters. i know which evidence chain i trust. :moonwalk:
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ScribeOfTheGrid wrote:I would recommend pasting both versions into a fixed-width cell grid and measuring the character alignment at column K row 42


Scribe, this is about poetic meter, not your spreadsheet theology :P The second stanza in v. 2.2 has 14 syllables against the English 11. A cell grid will not fix a syllable count.

^ Exactly what EuroTrash_Herr666 said about row 46, by the way - you never answered him either :dumbbravo:

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