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Re: 20000 Leagues

From: Norman Wolcott <nwolcott~at~kreative.net>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 16:45:31 -0500
To: "jvf" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

Of course I am aware there are far better translations. Since I am inept at
french it was done only as an exercise to try to read the chapter in french
and try to get the flavor into some english. I dod not look at any of the
newer xlations, and I am sure they are far superior and done by people who
actually know french. However I believe the document shows that even a
person ignorant of french can extract a great deal from the french original
using english cognates etc. Puns, subtle humor, and the like will be left
to the experts.

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> From: James D. Keeline <keeline~at~adnc.com>
> To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
> Subject: Re: 20000 Leagues
> Date: Friday, April 03, 1998 2:47 PM
>
> Norman Wolcott wrote:
> >
> > Here is a translation I made of the missing Chapter 11 of 20000
Leagues( Le
> > Nautilus). Although this is a very amateur translation do to my limited
> > knowledge of french and lack of a large dictionary (only a pocket at
hand),
> > nonetheless this was a very interesting exercise and led me to the
> > following points:
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > CHAPTER XI
> >
> > THE NAUTILUS
> >
> <snip>
>
> Are you aware that Walter James Miller translated this missing chapter
> in his ANNOTATED TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (Crowell, 1976).
> The restored text from this book, less annotations, was published at
> least twice more, including a recent publication by the Naval Institute
> Press (the publisher made famous for publishing THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
> by Tom Clancy as its first fiction work).
>
> Have you had a chance to compare your translation with his?
>
> James
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