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rustic cosmosBOT Mar 9, 2024, 4:06 PM

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fathom acorn Mar 9, 2024, 4:07 PM

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keen bane Mar 9, 2024, 4:17 PM

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It's weird. First off, is this translated from another language ? If not, is there some sort of regionalism at play (quebec or other) ?

By default i would go with : don't do/say anything crazy or stupid

fathom acorn Mar 9, 2024, 4:18 PM

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Yep, translated from English

keen bane Mar 9, 2024, 4:18 PM

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Probably a case of poor translation I'd imagine.

fathom acorn Mar 9, 2024, 4:19 PM

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Fantasy novel from the 80s. Roger Zelazny, le signe de la licorne.

keen bane Mar 9, 2024, 4:21 PM

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The original

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So yeah, poor translation

fathom acorn Mar 9, 2024, 4:22 PM

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Yep. Thanks!

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Sigh. Should have thought of looking at the original

keen bane Mar 9, 2024, 4:24 PM

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Don't worry about it 👍 . But as a general note, older sci-fi novels didn't benefit from the best translations in general (really low budgets)

fathom acorn Mar 9, 2024, 4:25 PM

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Good to know! I'll have to try to find french language books to read - up to now I've been mainly reading books I read when younger

keen bane Mar 9, 2024, 4:29 PM

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What publisher is your book from, out of curiosity ?

fathom acorn Mar 9, 2024, 4:55 PM

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Éditions Denoël

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(on aussi working my way through Discworld)

keen bane Mar 9, 2024, 4:58 PM

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Discworld should be good, l'Atalante had a great translator for it. The quality should be way better

fathom acorn Mar 9, 2024, 5:01 PM

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It is.

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pieds d'argile is next.

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It's bizarre. I'll be reading asking no problem, then get to one of the philosophical discussions and spend so much time trying to understand a page.....

keen bane Mar 9, 2024, 5:06 PM

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I'm not a discword specialist, but i believe the writing is pretty rich, it makes sense it would be hard sometimes. FYI, the same translator did the black company, with l'Atalante too. Also very good.

fathom acorn Mar 9, 2024, 5:08 PM

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Absolutely. Plus he lives his word play.

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