- watched The Expanse season 6 (dubbed)
French
- read Capitaine de vaisseau by Patrick O'Brian (translation)
gzt wrote:What do you think of the translations of the O'Brian books? I'm a big fan of his works and if the translations are good I'll probably pick them up.
daegga wrote:gzt wrote:What do you think of the translations of the O'Brian books? I'm a big fan of his works and if the translations are good I'll probably pick them up.
My French is not good enough to judge the translation quality, but it's readable and entertaining enough. The naval terms are still tough, but so they were in the original. Some word plays are hard to translate (dog watch being curtailed etc), they get footnotes explaining the joke.
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