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Professor
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![]() A couple of years ago, I read Spanish translations of The Kite Runner and One Thousand Splendid Suns. They'd obviously been translated by different people as the flow and vocab of the Kite Runner (as far as I can remember) was reallly smooth whereas 1000 Splendid Suns sounded really stilted and translated-there was some vocab which really made me wonder what dictionary they'd been using and how old it was. The same year I read Lost City Radio/Radio Ciudad Perdida which although written by a Peruvian born author was written in English and translated by someone else. (From what I remember) it was the most amazing piece of translated prose. The story was great as well, but had the translation been mediocre or bad, it wouldn't have been nearly as readable. |
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Last edited by casimendocina; 05-02-2011 at 06:19 AM. |
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The Un-Tuckian
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Disgression!!!
Not what the thread is about, really, but... That's not an AK-47. It's not even a toy AK-47. It ain't no machine gun, neither.
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The future is unwritten
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Yeah, everyone knows that's a dreaded assault rifle.
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