SEELANGS" Omissions in translations?

[Anne Fisher]

FWIW: _Devushka s tatuirovkoi drakona_ is longer than _The Girl With A
Dragon Tattoo_, in that in almost every paragraph there are phrases and even
whole sentences (such as authorial asides) that exist in the Russian
translation, but not in the English one... Although I don't speak Swedish,
the differences are large enough to suggest that the two translations'
source texts were different. But since I can't imagine why this would be, it
seems more likely that the English version was just trimmed down. I imagine
that the actual choices of what to cut are often laid on the translator's
shoulders, something like, "here it is, make it shorter by about 20%." Has
anyone out there been asked to "trim" a translation in this way?

-- 
Anne O. Fisher, Ph.D.
Russian Interpreter and Translator
anne.o.fisher at gmail.com
440-986-0175

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