In my last collection, one of the laughs was based on the way people in Toronto say “about.” The joke didn’t make sense in #German, so the translator focused on another word in the sentence—“kiosk”—and moved my Canadian to #French-speaking Quebec. It was a brilliant save, but nothing could salvage the ending of another essay. The laugh is based on the phrases “your trash” and “you’re trash,” and I don’t imagine it will work in anything but English. #xl8
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:55:21 +0000
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