[HN Gopher] Translating Jabberwocky into Japanese
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       Translating Jabberwocky into Japanese
        
       Author : riboflavin
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-07-22 20:45 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (j-entranslations.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (j-entranslations.com)
        
       | euske wrote:
       | The OP missed another translation included in GEB by Naoki Yanase
       | (a guy who translated Finnegans Wake into Japanese, which tells
       | something).
        
       | riffraff wrote:
       | If you enjoy the idea of discussing how to translate (poetry in
       | particular) I can't recommend enough "le ton beau de Marot" by
       | Douglas Hofstadter of "Godel, Escher, Bach" fame. It explores
       | various approaches to translation, discusses a lot of funny stuff
       | and has a zillion different translations of the same poem, which
       | is pretty entertaining tho it gets boring after a while.
       | 
       | And interestingly enough, the Italian version of GEB contains a
       | pretty horrible, in my opinion, translation of the Jabberwocky,
       | where the monster name is translated as "mascellodonte", which
       | seems academic and dinosaur-like rather than fantastical as the
       | English one.
        
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