Usage of 〜ても in the phrase「でも普通どおりにやっても面白くないから…」


I'm translating Haruki Murakami's essay「真っ白な嘘」and came across this sentence:

> でも普通どおりにやっても面白くないから、架空の本をでっちあげて、それを詳しく評論することにした。

Which I've roughly translated as:

> But it’s not fun if you do it in a normal way, so I decided to make up
> imaginary books and write detailed reviews about them.

Most of the sentence I have no problem understanding, It's just the use of 〜ても
here in やっても that doesn't seem to translate naturally. I know the construction
means "even if" or "even though", but translating the phrase as "But because
it's not fun _even if_ you do it in a normal way..." doesn't sound right in
English. If there some other use of 〜ても that I'm not aware of?

Thanks!




Your translation seems about correct to me. And to me, it does sounds rather
weird even in Japanese. The fact that it starts by "でも" let me believe the
previous sentences would help put it in context and make much more sense.

I worked as a translator for a few years and if there is an advice I can give
you is to never translate literally. The 2 languages are far from compatibles
and must usually be rephrased to make sense in the other language.




Your translation seems about correct to me. And to me, it does sounds rather
weird even in Japanese. The fact that it starts by "でも" let me believe the
previous sentences would help put it in context and make much more sense.

I worked as a translator for a few years and if there is an advice I can give
you is to never translate literally. The 2 languages are far from compatibles
and must usually be rephrased to make sense in the other language.

