tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 04 07:30:50 1995
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Re: Review of translations
- From: david barron <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Review of translations
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 08:30:44 -0700 (MST)
At 09:19 PM 12/3/95 -0800, you wrote:
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>On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, David Barron wrote:
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>> I recently submitted an original work to several talented
>> "Klingonists" for review. All but one, the honorable Nick
>> Nicolas, was able/willing to put forth the effort.
>> This tells me that there are probably far too few talented
>> Klingonist out there to review all the works we would
>> like to have published. (THis also assumes that
>> there are enough completed works ready for review.)
>>
>> Let's just assume for a moment that there are
>> 10 translated/original tlhIngan Hol works ready to
>> get reviewed. Can we do it?
>
>But I echo charghwI''s dislike of reviewing poetry. I also dislike
>reviewing non-original works translated from other languages, like Beowulf
>from the Anglo-Saxon or Pushkin from the Russian. It's a real headache
>for me to double-check the Klingon writing with another foreign language
>- it's twice the translation work.
This *does* help me. The big poem was an inspiration but I think
when I am inspired again I will stick to proes ...of opera.
>> The notorius delays of "Hamlet" indicate that we have
>> fairly limited resorces to take on such a task. I hope
>> I am wrong.
>
>I think there are a small goup of people working on that, which is
>probably best for the sake of consistency in translation. You don't want
>large group of editors all working on the same piece. Hamlet is also a
>particularly ambitious and difficult project. It's a lot harder to
>translate Shakespearian iambic pentamenter than something written in
>modern English prose.
jIyaj.
>> Can we /Should we submit them to this list for review?
>
>Do you think there is a shortage of people who can review works? Are all
>the people who are really qualified to review works being asked to do so?
>It seems to me that a very small group of people are regularly asked to
>do all of the critiques. Until this month, no one ever asked me to review
>any works for publication.
Well, I *thought* there was a shortive of reviewers, but maybe
there is more for me to consider.
>I think there are probably a several other
>competent Klingon speakers out there who could review works for
>publication but have never been asked to do so.
Good point.
david
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>> david
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>yoDtargh
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