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  "thread": {
    "id": 2960,
    "subject": "notes on translations of TBOTNS",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2002-02-15T23:29:34+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-15T23:29:34+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-162@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-15T23:29:34+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) notes on translations of TBOTNS",
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          "text": "I do not know much about textual differences in various foreign language\ntranslations of TBOTNS. In fact, I know practically nil.\n\nHowever, I do know this: the first volume of the Japanese translation has a\nlot of editorial footnotes on certain words.  I have not seen any of the\nother volumes, so my guess might be wildly wrong (and, to anticipate the\nnext question, the answer is no, I have not read the entire volume of\nJapanese--I barely thrashed my way through several of the footnotes), but\nmy guess is that the footnotes were cribbed from \"Words Weird and\nWonderful\" in CASTLE OF THE OTTER (now aka CASTLE OF DAYS), and as a result\nI suppose that later volumes did not have such footnotes. The footnotes in\nfirst volume act as a pair of training wheels, it seems to me, preparing\nthe reader to go on without them--a neat trick, I think, in theory at least.\n\nBut I could be wrong, and if I am, then a lexicon existed in Japanese\nbefore I ever set out to write one in English.  (Even so: the task of\ntranslating such a wordlist from Japanese back into English . . . well, it\nwould be a job bigger than writing one's own lexicon.  Or so it seems to\nme.)\n\nI wonder if any other translations adopted this clever strategy?\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSirius Fiction\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\nNow with UPDATES!\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/"
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