HP in translation (wordplay in Chinese characters, etc.)

[Steve]

---  "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> ...
> 
> Anyway, I'm not sure whether these mistranslations are
> any worse than in, say, the Russian edition, but I 
> think they're entertaining. Certainly, the Asian 
> translators (those who actually used the Asian language
> rather than an English edition with footnotes) faced a
> serious challenge. I wouldn't want such a difficult job.
> 
> Carol, who also enjoyed the section on Nagini, the 
> milk-drinking snake
>

bboyminn:

I'm under the impression that the Russian translator did
just translate, they essentially took it upon themselves
to rewrite the book adding many scenes, dialog, and 
narrative that simply don't exist in the original.
Apparently they thought they could improve the books.

Now, I have this information second hand, so I can't
prove it as fact, but that seems a little overboard
for any translator to me.

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn