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I've written my startrekholidays story and sent it off to be beta'd, as well as embarked on writing my Yuletide assignment. In betwee, there's RL business, but I do fifind the tiime for readiing the occasional article, such as a this one:


Emil's Berlin in translation: about the various English versions of "Emil and the Detectives" by Erich Kästner, and how each of them dealt - or failed to - meet the central challenge: How can you translate a book so closely connected to a particular time and place? How do you let young English readers understand Emil’s world without losing the specificity that is part of the original’s charm? (Was simultanously amused and appalled to find out the Berlin kids get a class upgrade in the English version smply by being given some type of Enid Blyton-esque public school slang to speak, which, err, is not what I'd have chosen as the British equivalent for Berlin working class kids...)

On another note, have a Lawrence of Arabia vid rec:

[VID] Garlands (17 words) by caramarie
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Ali ibn el Kharish & T. E. Lawrence
Characters: Ali ibn el Kharish, T. E. Lawrence
Summary:

‘I pray that I may never see the desert again.’

Heartbreaking Lawrence/Ali relationship and character study.