Polish translation of Long Sun.

Gerry Quinn · 27 Aug 2014, 15:03 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:03:23 +0100
Subject: (urth) Polish translation of Long Sun.
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On 27/08/2014 15:59, Piotr Szcz?sny wrote:
>
> Hello people of Urth,
> Some time ago I tried to read the Long Sun in polish, but on first 
> pages I saw that the translator, translated name :Patera Silk to 
> Patera Jedwab (Jedwab is Silk in polish) I was outraged! I hate so 
> much when this happens, fortunately it's not that common. But I was 
> surprised that this crime was commited by a guy who did an excellent 
> job translating new sun.
> My question: what do you think? Can translating Silk's name can be 
> somehow justified (I'm not yet familiar with long sun) ?
>
>
I think it can, because in Silk's city, men are named after animal 
products, women after vegetable products, and androids after minerals. 
So to preserve that in the translation, he must translate the names. At 
least it is a very legitimate reason for doing it this way.

- Gerry Quinn

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