Another DH question

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "bboyminn" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:

> Well you seem to be getting a consensus.


zanooda:

Yes, finally a consensus :-). Thank you very much, everyone :-).

 

> Steve wrote:

> Do I understand correctly that you are working on your 
> own translation of the Harry Potter books? 


zanooda:

No, I can't do this translation myself, because (please don't laugh :-)) I just don't remember Russian well enough to translate literary works. I do technical translation sometimes, but it's different with books, with all this literary language etc. Very often I don't seem to be able to come up with the needed words and expressions anymore ;-(. I'm kind of stuck between the two languages, not knowing either one of them perfectly :-). However, I notice all the mistakes in someone else's translation, which makes me a very good translation editor :-).



> Steve wrote: 

> is this some official project


zanooda:

No, it's just the readers are not satisfied with the official translation, so the fans that know English organize groups and try to translate it better, just for themselves :-). It's actually quite useless most of the time, because they are all young and inexperienced (although very enthusiastic :-)) translators, so usually the result is even worth than the official translation :-). 

I'm just in it because one of my friends in Russia asked me to help them out and look through their translation to eliminate the most bad mistakes. I'm glad to do it, because, as I already said, I think it would be great to have at least one correct translation, even if not many people will read it :-). At the very least Neville won't be the Potions master in it, LOL ... 

 
> Steve:

> I'm also finding many hints here and there that the 
> official Russian translation is horribly flawed. 


Oh yeah, broad hints :-). It's really bad, especially the first four books, IMO.


zanooda, thanking everyone again for the right answer