IDITAROD 5-star review: "Stunningly Intricate and Fascinating Tale of Adventure"

[J.A.]

Nice.

[K.A.]

Very good!

[Andre Jute]

Here's a different kind of review:

Somebody is bidding US $700 for a Hungarian translation of IDITAROD!

http://translate.google.com/translate...

I've never been that hard up for reading matter.



Click the smaller pic for the $2.99/£1.92/€2.60 English version. Cheep, cheep, me budgie.

[Sharon]

I've got some Hungarian contacts - perhaps I should publish there.

I also have a friend who is conversant in several languages - Hugarian among them - perhaps I should get her to translate my book to a few of them.

[Andre Jute]

Translation requires novelistic skills, not just familiarity with the language. If your friend writes well in English, go for it. I doubt you'll make enough money out of a Hungarian edition to pay her for the work.

[Sharon]

She took her last years of schooling here so does write well in English, I'm not sure how her written skills are in Hungarian and Spanish, two I know for certain she is fluent in the spoken word.

But I was just kidding...

[K.A.]

My grandmother was Hungarian - that's where the gypsy blood comes from...supposedly.

[Andre Jute]

You always know a better class of person everywhere, Sharon.

[Sharon]

As befits a person who is a member of ROBUST...

[Dakota]

I speak a few languages indistinguishably from the natives. But I don't think I would dare do translations into any language I learned as an adult. It is the small things that trip you up. Languages that I learned as a child, or no later than my teens, picking them up where my father worked, is different because I know the small things.

Andre is a spectacular linguist but he mostly lets other people translate his books. Probably for the same reason. You should get him to tell you the hilarious story of the Japanese translation that occasioned several suicides.

[Sharon]

Ha ha Dakota, I'm not sure my heart could take it...

[Dakota]

There's that, too...