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Aunty Muriel's Blog
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Aunty Muriel's Blog is a personal blog at auntymuriel.com about writing and culture. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Asterix in Translation: The Genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by commenters for its comparisons of Asterix translations, including the English versions by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge and how puns and jokes are rendered. Commenters cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
...you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and to feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't,…
Most-linked posts?
- Asterix in Translation: The Genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-06-08
What Hacker News says?
See the first item in this post: https://auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-th... Was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22678816
Comment linking /2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-the-genius-of-anthea-bell-and-derek-hockridge/
on “Louvre makes its entire collection available online”Submitted Asterix in Translation: The Genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge as a story · 161 points
HN discussionVery effectively. The English versions are celebrated almost as much for the translations by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge as for everything else. Puns are translated quite freely; in many places they make up new ones. See e.g. https://auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-th...
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on “Passé présomptif: on Vercingetorix”Submitted Asterix in translation: the genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge (2012) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionMost of the joke is the same as the original, but the 'mild and bitter' part is an addition by the translators. Here's a blog post on them with a comparison of this and a few other pages https://auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-th...
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on “Tintin, Hergé and Chang – A Friendship That Changed the World”
