Unfortunately, yes, the use of a translator is a problem. There are many threads on this in the Authors' Hangout which might assist.
Sorry to hear that it was rejected. There are some threads that cover this topic - use the 'search' function to find some more discussion as well as the replies that you're getting here.
That's a shame. Literotica is special because of the number of people who can read your work and give you feedback. Having it in Spanish is like writing to nothing. Thanks <3
You could try for a manual translation? I know it's a lot of work.
You seem to write in very good English. Maybe do a rough translation and seek a volunteer editor?
It's not specifically against the rules, but the output of translation software is basically indistinguishable from the output of a chatbot. You might be able to go back through the story and 'recolor' it with the nuances that a machine translation tends to get rid of when it tries to convey the basic meaning as clearly as possible. It may or may not have done a competent job of translating your words, but it's a safe bet it lost most of the 'artistry' of a carefully crafted tale. If you re-edit and resubmit, I suggest you add a note to the admin indicating that you used software to translate as an intermediate stage. That is by no means guaranteed to work, but they might give you the benefit of the doubt if the new version is an edge case by their standards.
Do you use any automated grammar tools at all?
As others have mentioned translating, I did notice there are some Volunteer Editors who specify this in their bio. Perhaps peruse. It did not take me long to find one or two.
Not hard.
Yes, I use Grammarly, Libre Office, Google Docs, an on-line thesaurus (Power Thesaurus), and I have used GROK to help me find words, i.e. "What's a word or phrase to describe a husband who allows his wife to take lovers, but is not a 'cuck'?" or to find quotes (Did Oscar Wilde say anything about temptation?) But I NEVER copy/paste, and always attribute the original author. I am working with an editor, English is not her first language so we sometimes go back and forth on wording, in order to nail the meaning for English speakers. I actually find that exercise helpful in finding deeper meanings that might appeal to a wider range of readers.
Unfortunately, this is almost certainly the source of your trouble.
The "controversial opinions" thread is over that way...
I think that's all totally fair. And if you use its recommendations to review a section of your writing and then make your own self-edits, that probably won't run afoul of whatever detection tools Lit does or doesn't use...
Yeah, and I totally recognize the value of these tools as productivity multipliers in business communications, or whatever. The kind of writing I do for work doesn't benefit much from what they can do currently, but I don't have any judgement whatsoever for people that do!
I think that's all totally fair. And if you use its recommendations to review a section of your writing and then make your own self-edits, that probably won't run afoul of whatever detection tools Lit does or doesn't use...
I think the problem is that Grammarly just makes it so easy to click a button and let it do the thinking and the work for you, and that is linguistically, mechanically identical to letting ChatGPT write a paragraph for you. I think that's where a lot of the "false positives" are coming from, people making good faith efforts to do their own writing, and not noticing how smoothly Grammarly or Copilot or whatever are inserting themselves into their workflow.
Conceptually, emotionally, they just don't see it as AI assistance. It's like a patient telling a doctor, "I don't do any drugs," and forgetting that weed still counts from a medical perspective
Yeah, and I totally recognize the value of these tools as productivity multipliers in business communications, or whatever. The kind of writing I do for work doesn't benefit much from what they can do currently, but I don't have any judgement whatsoever for people that do!
You could try asking AI to interpret, rather than literally translate your text. I've noticed that AI translations can be too literal, and the English doesn't feel right.
