Google| Subject | Re: Mickey and Donald (Was Don't aspire to succeed - that right belongs to America alone...[wa Re: O |
| From | Yuk Tang |
| Date | 08/20/2004 08:15 (08/20/2004 08:15) |
| Message-ID | <Xns954B49C9D51F0jimlaker2yahoocom@130.133.1.4> |
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TT Arvind <ttarvind@hotmail.com>wrote in news:MPG.1b8f283b3c744e0a989c7f@news.individual.net:
TT ArvindThe names made me laugh. Used to collect the stories as a kid.
Wes ?u ?jevind L?ng hal!?jevind L?ngTT Arvind
Agree. To mention one, the English translation by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge is first class. They did excellent work with the many puns (some of them so awful it is specially funny).
And don't forget the names, where I think the English translation improves enormously on the already-funny originals: 'Vitalstatistix' for Majestix the chief, 'Dogmatix' for Id?fix the dog, 'Getafix' for the druid, 'Cacafonix' for the bard, and so on.
-- Cheers, ymt.
08/20/2004
