Uranus joke in different languages

racjom racjom at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jan 31 23:52:29 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 34425

This is a bit late, but I was very busy and I don't have the book 
with me because I lent it to a friend. After all this talk about the 
joke, I had to find out how it was translated and went to check it in 
the bookstore. I was a bit dissapointed. It's not translated at all. 
I guess that's why I didn't remember it.

In the Slovene translation:
,,Uuu, Lavender, a pokazhes tvojega Uranchka she meni?'' jo je 
vprashal Ron. 
Uuuh, Lavender, would you show me your little Uranus, too? asked Ron.

The little Uranus does not have any additional meaning. Ah, well. 
Humour is probably one of the hardest things to translate, but the 
translator could have shown some more imagination, he has shown it 
elsewhere.

Mojca






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