Still sounds weird to me in English. I grew up reading the French version, and even though I'm a translator, I can't imagine what the English translation sounds like to a native anglophone. It invariably sounds... prissy to me, whereas the original phonetically evokes actual swears.
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Re: Captain Haddock
Date: 2007-04-25 06:08 am (UTC)Still sounds weird to me in English. I grew up reading the French version, and even though I'm a translator, I can't imagine what the English translation sounds like to a native anglophone. It invariably sounds... prissy to me, whereas the original phonetically evokes actual swears.