Polish translation of Long Sun.

Marc Aramini · 27 Aug 2014, 19:41 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 12:41:51 -0700
Subject: (urth) Polish translation of Long Sun.
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The Italian version translates the entire "like glass/grass grow to any eye
not of me" doggerel to hide Vodalus' coin completely differently in
the first and last books.  I haven't looked at that in more than 15 years,
though.  I think the Spanish translation was pretty good, but I only read
through parts of New Sun, and I picked up my Spanish conversationally
rather than through any kind of education.

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Piotr Szcz?sny <neternalz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've read only Book of the New Sun in Polish, then I started reading in
> English (In fact Peace was my first novel that I've read in English). But
> then I re-read some parts in English and boy, the translator added some to
> the puzzles. Remember the part at the end of the Citadel, when Severian
> discovers the room with dials? The translator used polish word for dial -
> "zegar", which is also used in polish for clock, in fact the first thing
> that pops in your head when you read this word in polish is a clock not a
> some kind of dial. So for me this place was a room full of clocks...
>
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