Fwd: Teffi puns

[Peter Scotto]

David

I really like what you've come up with. For my money, far superior to the
initial version and not stylistically jarring.

Peter Scotto


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Cooper, David <dlcoop at illinois.edu> wrote:

> I like this line of development, with it's sly reference to the old joke
> with the 3 part punchline: telephone, telegraph, and tell a woman.
>
> Maybe Soviet: Radio Telegraft; Ukrainian: Radio Telecon; and Euro: Radio
> Tel-a-lie. The first two might look like misspellings until the third one
> hits....
>
> David
> ________________________________________
> From: Peter Scotto [pscotto at MTHOLYOKE.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 2:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Teffi puns
>
> How about:
>
> -- We get two stations here, 'SovTeleCon" from Moscow, "UkanTelePhoney"
> from Kiev.  And now our very own European - "TransTeleFunk."
>
> (Maybe not so good.)
>
> Peter Scotto
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Eric NAIMAN <naiman at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> > We've got two sources of communication:  Bullshevik Broadcasting from
> > Moscow, and the Ukrainian Telegrapht. And we've got our own western,
> > multinational program:  Eurology.
> >
> > Don't blame the messenger, or the perevodchik.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> Am asking this question because a friend has asked me to.  My own view
> is
> >> that her solution is good and unlikely to be improved on.  But if anyone
> >> can do better, we would all be delighted!
> >>
> >> All the best,
> >>
> >> Robert
> >>
> >>
> >> Can anyone help with translating some puns from Teffi's 'Que faire?'?
> >>
> >> This is Teffi's text:
> >> - Да откуда же вы это узнали?
> >> - Из радио. Нас обслуживают два радио - советское <<Соврадио>> и
> украинское
> >> <<Украдио>>. И наше собственное первое европейское - <<Переврадио>>.
> >>
> >> Elegant, subtle. You almost don't notice they're puns till you get to
> the
> >> end.
> >>
> >> This, I'm afraid, is the best I and some really good translators here
> >> could come up with:
> >> "Where on earth did you find all this out?"
> >> "On the radio. We get two stations, Bullshevik Broadcasting from Moscow
> and
> >> Radio Phoney from Kiev. And now we've got our own pan-European station -
> >> Euro-garble News."
> >>
> >> As well as trying to find equivalent puns I've also tried various ways
> of
> >> expressing the humour otherwise than in a pun, but couldn't find a
> solution.
> >>
> >> It's been delivered to the publisher, and the editor has come back
> >> saying, quite correctly, that my version lowers the tone horribly.
> >>
> >> I don't have much time left and now I'm even thinking of simply
> >> transliterating the radio stations and explaining the joke in a
> footnote --
> >> but that would leave the story very flat at a point where it should
> really
> >> be getting pretty wild.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any ideas? Even a single pun? Or a different strategy?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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