/lit/ - Which is the better translation of the Polish book Ogniem i mieczem? Samuel A Binion's version or W. S. Kuniczak's? Jeremiah Curtin's version is not that good but he didn't forget to include the Epilogue.

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Scribe 04/17/2025 (Thu) 18:40:56 No. 751

Which is the better translation of the Polish book Ogniem i mieczem? Samuel A Binion's version or W. S. Kuniczak's? Jeremiah Curtin's version is not that good but he didn't forget to include the Epilogue.

Scribe 04/18/2025 (Fri) 01:11:39 No. 758

>>751 Kurwa

Scribe 04/19/2025 (Sat) 17:22:18 No. 810

>>751 I've heard that the translations aren't that good, one of them was made by a man who didn't know Polish well and just used a dictionary and the other made a lot of shit up. >Segel cites a series of mistranslations perpetrated by Curtin due to his carelessness, uncritical reliance on dictionaries, and ignorance of Polish idiom, culture, history and language. Among the more striking is the rendering, in The Deluge, of "Czołem" ("Greetings!"—a greeting still used by Poles) "literally" as "With the forehead!"[15] Funny.

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