{"id":23616,"date":"2014-01-26T22:34:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T02:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=23616"},"modified":"2014-01-26T23:42:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T03:42:11","slug":"sonderling-sunday-ken-kiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=23616","title":{"rendered":"Sonderling Sunday – Ken Kiang"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At last! It’s again time for Sonderling Sunday<\/a>, that time of the week when I play with language by looking at the German translation of children’s books. What with Christmas and a vacation in California, it’s been more than a month since my last installment, so I’m happy to get back to it tonight.<\/p>\n

And after such a long time off, of course I’m coming back to my stand-by, Der Orden der Seltsamen Sonderlinge<\/em>, The Order of Odd-Fish<\/a><\/em>, by James Kennedy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last time<\/a>, we finished up chapter 12, so now we begin Chapter 16, which is page 199 in the English original, and Seite 251 auf Deutsch<\/em>. We are almost<\/em> to the halfway point! (There are 403 pages in the English version, and 511 pages in the German version.)<\/p>\n

The chapter starts with a question we may well ask:<\/p>\n

“But what about Ken Kiang?”
\n= Wie aber war ist Ken Kiang ergangen?<\/em>
\n(“But how has Ken Kiang fared?”)<\/p>\n

“Ken Kiang was overwhelmed. He was overpowered.”
\n= Ken Kiang war \u00fcberw\u00e4ltigt, er war \u00fcbermannt.<\/em><\/p>\n

“before he would feel his soul dwindle and teeter on the precipice of being blasted to nothing by the sheer demonic grandeur that was the Belgian Prankster”
\n= sonst lief er Gefahr, dass seine Seele schrumpfte und er kurz davor war, ins Nichts zu verschwinden, und das allein durch die reine d\u00e4monische Gr\u00f6\u00dfe, die den Belgischen Scherzkeks ausmachte<\/em>
\n(“otherwise he was in danger, that his soul shrank and he was shortly into nothing to disappear, and that alone through the pure demonic size, that the Belgian Joke-Cookie achieved.”)<\/p>\n

“He had come away baffled and reeling.”
\n= Vollkommen verdattert und mit schwindelndem Kopf hatte er ihn verlassen.<\/em>
\n(“Completely flabbergasted and with dizzy head had he left him.”)<\/p>\n

“so hugely, senselessly lawless”
\n= so Gewaltigem, gef\u00fchllos Gesetzlosem<\/em><\/p>\n

“piddling mischief” = kl\u00e4glichen \u00dcbermut<\/em><\/p>\n

“unimaginably gargantuan evil” = unvorstellbaren, riesigen B\u00f6sen<\/em><\/p>\n

“a slap in the face” = ein Schlag ins Gesicht<\/em><\/p>\n

“only play into the schemes of his incalculable foe”
\n= nur seinem unberechenbaren Feind in die H\u00e4nde spielte<\/em><\/p>\n

“bit players” = Statisten<\/em><\/p>\n

“crackling fire” = knisterndes Feuer<\/em><\/p>\n

“invincible” = Unbesiegbaren<\/em><\/p>\n

“inscrutable mechanisms” = unergr\u00fcndlichen Mechanismen<\/em><\/p>\n

“awesome calculations” = Ehrfurcht einfl\u00f6\u00dfenden Berechnungen<\/em>
\n“Glory-fear inspiring calculations”)<\/p>\n

“minor functionary” = unbedeutendes R\u00e4dchen<\/em>
\n(“insignificant cog”)<\/p>\n

“vainglory” = eitlen Ruhm<\/em> (“vain fame”)<\/p>\n

“vanity” = Eitelkeit<\/em><\/p>\n

“burned away” = vernichtet<\/em><\/p>\n

“painstakingly” = pingelig<\/em><\/p>\n

“Fleet of Fury” = Furiosen Flotte<\/em><\/p>\n

“moody teenager” = launischer Teenager<\/em><\/p>\n

“stashed” = verstaut<\/em><\/p>\n

“crawling chaos” = wimmelndes Chaos<\/em><\/p>\n

“coaxed” = hervorlockten<\/em><\/p>\n

“silly props” = albernen Kost\u00fcme<\/em><\/p>\n

“showy fanfare” = schmetternde Fanfare<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s it for tonight, finishing at the end of page 201, thus being so<\/em> close to the halfway point of the book.<\/p>\n

And tomorrow morning, the Youth Media Awards are announced, including the Newbery and Caldecott Medals! There will be some wonderful schmetternde Fanfare<\/em> for a situation that is Ehrfurcht einfl\u00f6\u00dfenden<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Have a wonderful week! May you avoid both kl\u00e4glichen \u00dcbermut<\/em> and unvorstellbaren, riesigen B\u00f6sen<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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