LL-L "Projects" 2010.02.24 (03) [EN]

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From: Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
Subject: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Lowlands languages

Good day to all.

It's been a long time since I was involved with Lowlands-L, though some of
you may remember me.

I'm back with a proposal which might or might not find favour with some of
you.

I'm now a small Irish publisher who has been publishing "Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland" in a number of languages. (To date: English, Irish, Cornish,
Esperanto, with German, French, Italian, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Manx,
Swedish, and Lojban(!) in the works.)

I wonder... would any of you be interested in translating it into your
Lowlands language? I've spoken with Sandy Fleming who seems keen to
translate Alice into Scots. That's a good start...

Would anyone else have an interest?

Alice offers many opportunities for wordplay and puns ("Looking-Glass offers
more but is accordingly much harder to translate) and, well..

Every language deserves to have an Alice.

The length of the text is about 27,000 words.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
http://www.alice-in-wonderland-books.com

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Projects

Hi, Michael, and welcome back! Of course I remember you.

That's an interesting project you have there.

So I take it you are talking about *new* translations in some cases. For
instance, there are numerous German translations already (
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_im_Wunderland), also at least two Dutch
translations.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
Seattle, USA

P.S.: A digitized original version for those that need it:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-table.html



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