FW: [SEELANGS] query

[Tom Priestly]

Dear Ursula,
It looks as tho' nobody is taking your request seriously.
On the web-sites
http://www76.pair.com/keithlim/jabberwocky/translations/index.html
http://waxdog.com/jabberwocky/translate.html
you will see that  Carroll's "Jabberwocky" has been translated into
Polish (once), Czech (once), Russian (three times; the fourth one
listed looks like a joke), and Slovak (once).
The sites all seem to have the first verse - the one you want - in
these translated versions.
If you show these translations to a literate speaker of FSC, you may
yet obtain the translation you want.

Incidentally, did not Nabokov (as 'Sirin') translate some or all of Alice?

See also Warren Weaver, *Alice in Many Tongues,* Madison: University
of Wisconsin Press, 1964. According to Douglas Hofstadter (whom some
people do not admire as much as others), this "is a book to be
savored, for it reveals a great love for language and its umplumbable
depths." - I have not looked at this book for several years but I
seem to recall that 'Navokov/Sirin' is quoted at length.

Good luck in your quest
MHG
Tom


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>
>>  ----------
>>  From:         Ursula Doleschal
>>  Reply To:     Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
>>  Sent:         Thursday, February 13, 2003 3:09 PM
>>  To:   SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>>  Subject:      [SEELANGS] query
>>
>>  Dear colleagues,
>>  would someone kindly provide the translation of Lewis Carroll's nonsense
>>  poem into Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian:
>>
>>  Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
>>  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
>>  All mimsy were the borogoves
>>  And the mome raths outgrabe.
>>
>>  Many thynks in advance! Ursula Doleschal
>>
>>
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