Re: Multilingual translation exercise, part 1

Christian Thalmann scripsit:

> but I don't know how old the translation is.
The French version is 1969, the English 1994, and the German 1991.

> Ouch.  The French version reports how people break into a stock
> warehouse and take the food they find there, while the German version
> just speaks of "Mundraub sogar am Tag" (theft of food in broad
> daylight), without mentioning the warehouse, thus suggesting that
> people steal from each other.
If it had mentioned the warehouse, what would it have said?

> The German version saved one person from certain death.  Kinda
> laudable.
More than laudable: necessary.

> I assume "magasins" refers to shops rather than ammunition warehouses
> here.
Hmm.  Francophones, what say ye?

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