Fortochka

[anne marie devlin]

What about simply the top pane of the window?
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> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 02:18:20 -0500
> From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Fortochka
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
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> Marian Schwartz wrote:
> 
> > I can see "window." I can see "pane" (which is what I've used in the
> > past). If using this kind of word raises questions and sparks
> > someone's interest in finding out just how Russians open a single
> > pane, well, тем лучше. I worry about crossing too far over the line
> > between translation and explication, especially in a work of
> > literature.
> 
> For me, "window" is the entire assembly, including the framing and 
> glazing, but the core meaning is the opening that permits passage of 
> light and/or objects. But "pane" is specifically a piece of glass or 
> other transparent material, and nothing else. A window may have several 
> panes, but to identify форточка with "pane" strikes me as misguided -- 
> it misses the point of both words.
> 
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