ieva melgalve » translating http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry A writer with a goal: to learn to write well and edit better. Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:37:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3-beta2 I’m flued http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry/index.php/2009/08/22/im-flued/ http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry/index.php/2009/08/22/im-flued/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:23:32 +0000 ieva http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry/?p=344 Sooo.
It’s all because of the flu, I swear, that I haven’t written a thing for Vega and am generally a yelling freak (who can’t really yell because of the sore throat but the attempts are brave).
Yesterday, I translated The Final Turn to Latvian and realized why I have a run-on sentence problem: Latvians simply tend to have longer sentences without losing coherency. On the other hand, some stylistic feats raised their ugly heads asking why the hell did that writer do *that*.

All in all, translating seems to be a cool exercise for figuring out the weak spots, at least on sentence/word level.

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