Comments on: From our continental correspondent – Translation please: Bienvenue A Boboland http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/from-our-continental-correspondent-translation-please-bienvenue-a-boboland/ The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:05:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: Moacir http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/from-our-continental-correspondent-translation-please-bienvenue-a-boboland/comment-page-1/#comment-256402 Moacir Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:20:54 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=9527#comment-256402 I can second the request for an English translation. I just picked this up this week, and I adore it. Much of the satire and conceit works just as well in New York City or Chicago, and I wish I could share it with my friends from there, who would just devour this. (Looking for a translation led me here!) What's more, as with the Monsieur Jean albums I've read, the language isn't even that tricky, making translation a trivial manner (though it might be a graphical challenge, considering how intertwined text and art are. As for the dialogue, glorb beat me to the correction by a year. All the same, I would translate it idiomatically as, "Might you have heard something about a condo for sale in this area?" That captures the bobo aesthetic best in its American form. We don't buy apartments. We rent them. Bobos, however, buy condos. I can second the request for an English translation. I just picked this up this week, and I adore it. Much of the satire and conceit works just as well in New York City or Chicago, and I wish I could share it with my friends from there, who would just devour this. (Looking for a translation led me here!) What’s more, as with the Monsieur Jean albums I’ve read, the language isn’t even that tricky, making translation a trivial manner (though it might be a graphical challenge, considering how intertwined text and art are.

As for the dialogue, glorb beat me to the correction by a year. All the same, I would translate it idiomatically as, “Might you have heard something about a condo for sale in this area?” That captures the bobo aesthetic best in its American form. We don’t buy apartments. We rent them. Bobos, however, buy condos.

]]> By: Joe http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/from-our-continental-correspondent-translation-please-bienvenue-a-boboland/comment-page-1/#comment-205501 Joe Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:35:33 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=9527#comment-205501 Ah, thanks, Glorb - my French is very rusty, I can get a fair chunk of it but rarely all of it, one of these days when I have time I should do some classes again to brush it up. Ah, thanks, Glorb – my French is very rusty, I can get a fair chunk of it but rarely all of it, one of these days when I have time I should do some classes again to brush it up.

]]> By: glorb http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/from-our-continental-correspondent-translation-please-bienvenue-a-boboland/comment-page-1/#comment-205493 glorb Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:14:08 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=9527#comment-205493 In fact (if I may intercede), you're right about the guy who is a homeless man living in a tent on the Canal St Martin (you can recognize the bridge behind) where they did settle last winter with help of associations but you're wrong about the dialogue. She's asking him0 if he might have heard of any appartement to sale in the neighbourhood. The Canal Saint Martin is indeed a very nice place to live and perfect for bobos. :) In fact (if I may intercede), you’re right about the guy who is a homeless man living in a tent on the Canal St Martin (you can recognize the bridge behind) where they did settle last winter with help of associations but you’re wrong about the dialogue. She’s asking him0 if he might have heard of any appartement to sale in the neighbourhood. The Canal Saint Martin is indeed a very nice place to live and perfect for bobos. :)

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