Comments | brenk: Red ink and tweaking and cutting and adding and stuff.

brenk

Red ink and tweaking and cutting and adding and stuff.

Jul 22, 2006 17:19

Mininisoo wondered, in an exchange of mails, how much you can / should change / improve / add to stuff when translating (or editing or report writing), and I told her this one one of my soapboxes.

( Well... here goes )

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Lovely lucidity.... daphnis July 22 2006, 16:52:08 UTC

Mmmmmmm, you write so clearly and simply, I can't see how anyone could find fault with your reasoning. (I am biased in your favour, of course, but still... ;-)

Re: Lovely lucidity.... brenk July 22 2006, 18:18:41 UTC

Flattery gets you everywhere, y'know :) And I'm most particularly flattered about the UK spelling of 'favour'!

Re: Lovely lucidity.... daphnis July 22 2006, 19:11:48 UTC

Well, I'm a switch-hitter when it comes to spelling ~ it's part of my adaptive colouration :D

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brenk July 23 2006, 05:58:55 UTC

Oh I love that story! The singer Enya now uses a language called Loxian, created by one of her friends, to sing in - it does actually sound lovely. Have to say I enjoy certain languages for singing... Russian is lovely, Swaheli too... and we won't mention Dutch ( ... )