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So, everytime I read a song lyric whose all Kanji I can read I look them up on YouTube to try singing the song, and if I like the tune, I will wonder about its translation. Today I encountered this song when browsing Anime Lyrics and felt in love with the tune. There's no English translation there, but I happened to come across this video in YouTube which has the Indonesian translation. Can I just translate the Indonesian version to English and submit it here?
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"Also, please submit only your own work--again, nothing from a fan translation or fan site/blog/wiki"
Your source material would be someone else's work so I doubt it'd be allowed.
Ah, okay then. Thanks.
Furthermore, translating from someone else's translations is just a very bad idea in general.
For one, you have no way of knowing whether they have got something wrong. For two, you don't know whether or not you are getting the right nuances, intention and so forth from the lines.
Translating like that just ends up like a bad version of "Chinese Whispers".
Online translators like Google Translate and BabelFish already do this for us well enough.