Tuesday, May 13, 2014

More on names...

Just an explanation in response to Ika's very interesting post about how to translate names in Tsukuru Tazaki. It sounds like the Swedish translator(s) did the same I did in Polish. When the names (in their full forms) appeared for the first time, I wrote them in Japanese and explained the meanings. Once the first parts of the names started being used as nicknames, I translated them into Polish. As many readers will know, many Polish last names have adjectival endings ~ski or ~ska (coming originally from place names). For that reason names of colors made into adjectives sounded very natural as nicknames. At least I think it works....



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