Re: Multilingual translation exercise, part 2

John Cowan sikyal:

> This text is much shorter, but more difficult.  As I mentioned before,
> I don't have the German version, and I would ask anyone who does
> and is willing to post it, to please do so.  Thanks.
Eeek!  If I could figure out what this meant in English, I might try to
translate it, but otherwise . . .

All of these texts present a very great problem for translating into an a
priori fictional-world conlang, but I suppose such tasks are part of the
translator's duty.


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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