Recent content by Moran

Wishing HM a quick and speedy recovery! Cancer is indeed no longer an automatic sentence, especially if caught early. Or even later, as we in my family know very well. I hope things will get on track soon enough. If it was caught almost by chance, in relation to another problem, it was likely in...

Wow! I can't believe it. At the same time, I can see how one can say they'd never do something when they're still doing their part without too much obstacles. But when aging and health issues become an obstacle? Intentions may change. She's a lady of quick action, for sure. Two weeks? Talk...

Meghan wanted the ultimate Stepford wife to show her the ropes of being a Stepford wife, remember? She was unpleasantly surprised when Catherine didn't offer. They offered her Sophie, the almost-ultimate Stepford wife, IRRC, but not the real thing.

An example of a real translation error from the last ten minutes: I read, "She says so quietly that I almost question hearing it." I write, "She says so quietly that I barely hear it." That's a translation error. And the point? I saw it and fixed it well before it reached the editor. No way the...

That's it. in a nutshell. How Harry can't see this is beyond me.

Thank you. It does. Absolutely. The thing is, it's going to take time to ascertain who sent what, who received what and who contacted or failed to contact whom. Was the final manuscript sent in a mass email? Was only the Dutch one wrong? Was it the publisher who made a mistake? Whatever. If...

Someone please tell me what Scobie said about the publisher? I'd like to know but as a translator myself, I'm not sure I could actually read this. It's horror stuff for me. It's hard to work under the pressure of knowing that you could be sued at any moment if you make a mistake in certain...

That would be too many translation errors, all in the same vein. I have yet to see someone sound the alarm for Meghan and Harry being presented as way too harsh in the Dutch version, in contrast to the UK one. Not translation errors at all. The words aren't the problem, the vein in which the...

It isn't this simple. If the Netherlands publisher wants to stay in good standing with their UK counterpart, they might be against it - and if she insists, they might delicately spread the rumour that she's difficult to work with. Limiting her options for further books from other publishers. If...

Version one: The Dutch translators worked from an earlier original that had those names in it but later Scobie got cold feet and tried to redact them out. Then, there was a miscommunication between the UK and the Netherlands team, leading to delays in sending and receiving the information. As...

Indeed. From what I saw, she's a lady of certain age and experience. I can't believe she didn't save everything she had been sent to prove she translated faithfully. Funny thing is, names are the only thing you can't get wrong in such cases. Because it isn't all in the author's imagination...

We don't work with foreign authors directly. All goes through the publisher. Often, we get a few versions of the manuscript, each time with assurance that it's the final file. No way those names weren't somewhere in one of the manuscripts if there was more than one. But even so, the translators...

I hope the results are shouted from the roofs, loud and clear. For us, it's more than legal expenses. It doesn't matter if we win or lose. Well, it does, but not in the long run. In the long run, only one thing matters:did we do such a fundamental mistake, or not? In the opinion of the industry...

As a literary translator, that's the kind of stuff that terrifies me. That's the kind of **** we get sued over. No matter if it was a translation error or not. That's why we save like mad everything we got sent. We check and recheck. And the editors do the same when we're done. I'm rather sure...

It was rather impressive, although the Queen looked a little too glum to me in the carriage. I hope she's well. What about the bearskin thing? How do they breathe? My imagination fails me.