<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Not at all - the case of the two/three versions of Peter Høeg's "Miss Smilla's Sense Of/Feeling For Snow" is celebrated in the field of translation studies. (Well, OK - "celebrated" might be a little on the strong side...)<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 10 Nov 2006, at 14:45, Ramesh Krishnamurthy wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">Noah Smith mentioned Harry Potter, and I must admit I'm quite surprised to discover<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><BR>that publishers are making such changes as<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" class="cite" cite=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "> They had drawn for the house cup</SPAN><BR style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "> They had tied for the house cup</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>Perhaps because it's "children's" literature? Or at least read by many children,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><BR>who may not be willing/able to cross varietal boundaries with total comfort.<BR></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; 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