[HPforGrownups] Re: French versions

[Sheryll Townsend]

No: HPFGUIDX 16966


--- Gaynor Thomas <gaynor at cheerful.com> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Sheryll Townsend
> <s_ings at y...> wrote:
>  
> 
> > Interesting, I have the same edition. Could there
> be
> > more than one version in French? Mine is copyright
> > 1998 for the translation. Is yours a more recent
> > translation, I wonder? The scenes in question are
> on
> > pages 52 and 53 of my book.
> 
> Mine is also copyright 1998. But there is also a
> note saying Harry 
> Potter names etc. are copyright and trademark to
> Warner Bros. c2000. 
> Perhaps mine is a revised edition?
> 
> > 
> >'Je veux tout le monde 
> >
> <snip French>
> >
> >sans pulveriser un extraterrestre sur son
> ordinateur."
> >
> > How does this read in your version?
> > 
> 
> 
> "Je veux que tout le mode pret a partir dans cinq
> minutes. On s'en 
> va. Emportez simplement quelques vetements, et pas
> de discussion!
> 
> Il paraissait tellement menacant, avec sa moustache
> degarnie, que 
> personne n'osa plus faire un geste. Dix minutes plus
> tard, apres 
> avoir arrache les planches qui condamnait la porte,
> ils monterent 
> dans la voiture qui fonca vers l'autoroute. Dudley
> pleurnichait a 
> l'arriere, a cause du coup que son pere lui avait
> donne sur la tete 
> pour les avoir retardes en voulant a tout prix
> emporter sa 
> television, son magnetoscope et son ordinateur dans
> son sac de sport. 
> Ils roulerent, roulerent, roulerent. La tante
> Petunia elle-meme 
> n'osait pas demander a son mari ou il comptait les
> emmener. De temps 
> a autre, l'once Vernon faisait demi-tour et
> repartait dans la 
> direction opposee.
> 
> On va les semer, on va les semer, marmonnait-il.
> 
> Ils roulerent ainsi toute la journee sans prendre le
> temps de 
> s'arreter pour boire our manger quelque chose. A la
> tombee du jour, 
> Dudley poussa de longs hurlements. Il avait faim, il
> avait rate cinq 
> emissions de television qu'il tenait absolument a
> voir et il n'avait 
> jamais passe autant de tmps sans pulveriser un
> extraterrestre sur son 
> ordinateur." (p46/7)
> 
> 
> I've looked up my English version of PS and it's
> about as close as 
> you can get to the original English.
> 
> About a year ago, I did hear that the French
> translations weren't 
> very good, so I resisted buying them. When I did buy
> them, (at least 
> PS and PoA), I was surprised to find the
> translations better than I 
> had expected. Perhaps they rushed out a translation
> of PS in 1998 and 
> then revised it in a later edition - the one
> Florence and I have 
> bought.
> 
> Have you found many other omissions from the text? I
> haven't read all 
> of PS in French yet, but I've read PoA in its
> entirity, and apart 
> from the odd word, it's close to the original. 
> 
> Gaynor
> 
Your version is obviously closer to the original
English text than mine. If it's a later version, I
wonder why there's no note as to it's being different
from the original translation (that's the library
technician in me, nitpicking the details!). I've run
across a few other parts where they've omitted bits
and pieces. That was just the only one I could think
of without digging up my notes. I'm up to Chapter 6 in
my comparison and have about 10 pages of omissions and
just plain poor translating. I'll send you a copy of
what I find, if you're interested (of course I have to
get my handwritten notes onto the computer first!).

Sheryll

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"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

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