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Re: Wordsworth Mysterious Island edition

From: Tom McCormick <jambuvijaya~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:30:49 -0800 (PST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Harry and friends,-

Car is actually a very ancient word. A pre-Roman Briton called his ox-drawn wagon a car. "Chariot" is an augmentative for carrus, the Latin version of the same word. I bet this isn't the first time the basket of a manned balloon was called its car. The meaning "motorcar" is a bit more recent!

Tom




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From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Wed, February 24, 2010 6:00:28 PM
Subject: Re: Wordsworth Mysterious Island edition

I realise that in the world of Vernian translations I am a person who is
just learning to say "Bonjour" without making a pig's ear of it, but on page
6 of this translation there is something that strikes me as just completely
wrong

"What still remains to be thrown out?"
"Nothing"
"Yes - the car"
"Let us catch hold of the net, and into the sea with the car!"

A CAR??? A CAR??? A method for travelling by the means of the internal
combustion engine that usually has four wheels??? In a balloon??? I know
that Verne was ahead of his time, but that's worthy of an investigation by
the Torchwood Institute!

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Sent: 24 February 2010 11:47 pm
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Subject: Wordsworth Mysterious Island edition


Dear JVF,

The Mysterious Island - Wordsworth Edition.

Wordsworth Editions Ltd. (March 15, 2010)

http://www.amazon.com/Mysterious-Island-Wordsworth-Classics/dp/
1840226242/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

Comments welcome on this translation, etc.

Cyrus

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