Awkward title

[petrusplancius]

I see that Jessica Mitford's memoir of herself and her odd collection of sisters (who included a communist, a Nazi and a Duchess) has been translated into German. One might have thought that the title 'Hons and Rebels' would present a problem, referring as it does to the use of hon(ourable) as title in Britain for daughters of a lord, but I could

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[germankitty]

Ouch. That HURTS.

[oh_meow]

I bet the translation/cultural awareness of the translation isn't exactly stellar either . .

[anicca_anicca2]

Not necessarily though. The translator may not have been the one choosing the title. My guess is they weren't involved in it at all.
It's one of my pet peeves; books and films are regularly given the most outrageous and lurid titles for the German versions, even if the original title was nothing of the kind, and even if it doesn't fit the content. I don't know why they do it, it's really cringeworthy.

[thekumquat]

[looks up Hunne to check it means what I thought it did]

Oh dear...

[muckefuck]

Looks like that title would have to be translated even for the US market.

[teaoli]

I'd long considered the Baltimore dialect to be really, really limited to that area. (I used to find some of my Baltimore-dwelling cousins incomprehensible at times.) Do you really think most people interested in the book would mistake "Hons" for "hons"?

[majolika]