One literary passage, translated by two different people. Interesting if you read translated lit and wonder about how well the sense of the work survives.
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Donnie Darko simpson is so cute! And Frank the bunny!
The translations are interesting. On one hand, the first is closer — it paraphrases less, and it tries to use cognate words where possible. And yet on the other, the second is more fluent, and respects the usual meaning more. Eg, “veneno” means “poison”, which is not the same as venom. And on the gripping hand, an alliteration preserved by using “venom” which is lost in the more polished translation. And if you’ll lend me one more hand, “hot plate” might be understandable in English, but it’s NOT a vivid metaphor, just a conventional phrase.
On the whole, I’d favour the second one, but I can see that the writer of the first one is trying to convey “Spanish in English” whereas the second translation might as well be a work composed in English in the first place.
Jenni – they were my faves too 🙂
Stephen – really interesting to have comment from someone who knows the languages! All I could do was look and see how different they were in word choice, rhythm, etc. Your last comment about what the translation goals might have been is enlightening.