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Re: Translation errors in Antarctic Mystery

From: N Wolcott <nwolcott~at~dsdial.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:42:29 -0400
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

I was assuming there were certain paragraphs that had problems in the later chapters.
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  From: wbutcher
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  Subject: Re: Translation errors in Antarctic Mystery


  Have you looked at the simple method of … counting the number of words? Any translation that’s is significantly shorter than the original can’t be very good.

   

  Bill

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  From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] On Behalf Of N Wolcott
  Sent: Tuesday, 12 April, 2005 5:24 AM
  To: Jules Verne Forum
  Subject: Translation errors in Antarctic Mystery

   

  At Mondial I overherard a discussion of translation errors in Antarctic Mystery. I am looking for "problem errors" in Verne translations to serve as test beds for research. If anyone knows which these chapters are plelase let me know. As Cashel-Hoey was one of the more famous literary personages to translate Verne, errors in her translation are significant.

   

  PS I am not interested in errors in the Mercier translations.

   

  What I am interested in is a semi-automatic method of rating translations. While it os often easy to say if a paragraph is translated well, it is more diffciult to estimate the amount of badness in a paragraph. Hence the need for some bad paragraphs.

   

  N Wolcott nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu



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