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[personal profile] nnozomi prompted: Anything to do with translation issues (cnovel or otherwise)

I think that translation requires choices, so any good translation must by nature engage with its choices. Not /defend/ exactly, but persuade that those choices are shedding light upon its source. There's two 'choices' that I'm interested in discussing (today) (lol): foreignization (wait, don't go away!) and Nachdichtung and other transformations.

Caveats )

Foreignization )

Nachdichtung and other transformations )

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