Who is RAB again. WAS:Re: Snape and Regulus/OFH!Snape

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 140839

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "spotsgal" <Nanagose at a...> 
wrote:

Christina:
> I should note, though, that according to another site
> (http://www.eulenfeder.de/int/gbint.html), the Polish translation of
> "Sirius Black" is "Syriusz Czarny."
> 
> I can't find anything listed for Regulus (he was too obscure a
> character before HBP to merit a place on a list of translated HP
> names, I guess), but someone who has the HP books in translation 
would
> certainly be able to check.
> 
> According to this list, the Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, and
> Welsh translations would feature a Regulus Black whose last initial
> would NOT be "B."  The Dutch and Norwegian translations (according 
to
> Veritaserum.com) come out on November 19th.  Is there anyone that 
will
> be getting a copy of either of these?
> 
> I am confident that if RAB *is* Regulus Black, the translations will
> give us initials that correspond to whatever "Regulus Black"
> translates into.  According to the Eulenfeder.de link I posted 
above,
> "Tom Marvolo Riddle" was translated in other editions so that his 
name
> would still give an anagram of a sentence along the lines of "I am
> Lord Voldemort."

Geoff:
This fascinates me because one of my interests has always been 
linguistics - especially the links between languages.

In passing, I hope you realise that "eulenfeder" is the German 
for "owl's feather".

The Swedish version is intriguing in that they give "I am Lord 
Voldemort" in Latin(!) - Ego sum Lord Voldemort - and thus his name 
in Swedish includes the middle name of "Gus". How can you seriously 
swear allegiance to a megalomaniac Dark Lord called Gus?
:-)

The trouble with translations is that the word plays of the original 
are lost so the subtleties of such as Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley, 
Durmstrang and Pensieve cannot be appreciated in the foreign 
editions.