Mark
>Kind of wish I hadn't said anything - I just have a bee in my bonet
>about translators making French thinkers sound esoteric when their
>French is quite plain.
I absolutely agree - my own personal bugbear is the translation of
the quite ordinary interdit or interdiction as 'interdiction', a rare
legal word in English - when it is a common word in French meaning
prohibition.
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Clare
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Clare O'Farrell
email: panoptique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
website: http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au
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>Kind of wish I hadn't said anything - I just have a bee in my bonet
>about translators making French thinkers sound esoteric when their
>French is quite plain.
I absolutely agree - my own personal bugbear is the translation of
the quite ordinary interdit or interdiction as 'interdiction', a rare
legal word in English - when it is a common word in French meaning
prohibition.
--
Clare
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Clare O'Farrell
email: panoptique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
website: http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au
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