Russian edition of the single volume of The Witcher saga (customized cover by Ivan Semirozum)
Posted Jan 31, 2018, 9:08 PM UTC
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I will shit a brick on camera if they release a version like this in English
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I really want the U.S publishers to notice the rising popularity of the saga and re-release the entire U.S version in one set with completely new (not awful) covers.
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And improved translations. Though that probably is too much to hope for.
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It's definitely too much to hope for, given that Lauren Hissrich is basing the series on, obviously, the English translation that she got. Which is mediocre, but unfortunately the dialogues will be based on that and I doubt that the publishing house would want their translating inconsistency to be exposed in the differences between new translations and the tv series based on the old ones.
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the differences between new translations and the tv series based on the old ones.
This is a huge overstatement. There's no way show is going to be so faithful that people will be able to use it to nitpick translation. You're also treating it as if there's substantial differences in the story caused by the translation. Based on the recent topics on the translations we're just missing out on some puns and the wordplay isn't quite as good.
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I'm almost certain there'll be new covers when the series releases, but they'll probably be based on the show's key art, ala Game of Thrones/ASOIAF. Doubt they'd go in for a new translation though, those can take over a year of work, plus they'd need to hire a better and more expensive translator to make it worth it.
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Yeah we in Poland get new edition in last year or two years ago with awsome new looking covers based on cover of last one book. I wish that someday U.S will get missing books because everyone love Witcher saga
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I found it here, although it’s not the original source: https://www.facebook.com/SapkowskiBrasil/posts/427732454311766
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Geezus that’s beautiful
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By the way, I always wondered: why Andzhei? Not just Andrei? Especially given that the surname is given the Russian form Sapkovskii?
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Andzhei is closer to the Polish pronunciation than either are to Andrei (though it's a better translation); same goes with Sapkovskii. It's like if a dude name José Santos wrote a novel and it was translated to English - you wouldn't call him Joe Saint.
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Thanks for your answer!
you wouldn't call him Joe Saint.
It's tempting, though. Polish used to do it, which gave it Jerzy Waszyngton. But my point was that it seems inconsistent: shouldn't it be either Анджей Сапковски, keeping the Polish pronunciation, or Андрей Сапковский, Russifying both parts?
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Hm, that I can't answer, given was little I know about Russian. The example with Polish is interesting - some languages do it more than others. Japanese and Korean, for example, need to transliterate the names so that people can pronounce them due to the differences in pronunciation. Whereas the Romance/Germanic/Slavic continuum is close enough that most people can pronounce many of the phonemes of the other language to a point.
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To clarify, modern Polish keeps the original forms of foreign names, except for those monarchs whose names have good equivalents in Polish. Among European languages, Russian, obviously, needs to transliterate, and, as far as I know, Lithuanian adjusts foreign names to fit its interesting grammar. So George Walker Bush is Džordžas Volkeris Bušas in Lithuanian and Dzhordzh Uoker Bush in Russian.
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i see dragoncatborn.
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Actually the whole 5 books (main saga) feel like 1 single story.
(But I really want to see the book side ways and being compared to other books so I can know its width.)
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As I said before we Russians have a thing for hippopotamus-sized editions :D