{"id":34812,"date":"2018-05-28T00:27:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T04:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=34812"},"modified":"2018-05-28T00:28:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T04:28:15","slug":"sonderling-sunday-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=34812","title":{"rendered":"Sonderling Sunday – Seeking the Belgische Schezkekse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In honor of Memorial Day weekend and having already finished reading 5 books this weekend and written 3 reviews, let’s do a short, late night Sonderling Sunday!<\/p>\n

Sonderling Sunday<\/a> is that time of the week when I play with language by looking at the German translation of children’s books. It’s been awhile since my last Sonderling Sunday post<\/a>, and I’m getting so very close (proportionately) to the end of the most Sonder-book of all, that we’re going to stick with Der Orden der Seltsamen Sonderlinge<\/a><\/em>, The Order of Odd-Fish<\/a><\/em>, by James Kennedy<\/a>, again this time.<\/p>\n

We are still on Chapter 24 (of 28), on page 331 in the English version, and Seite 420<\/em> in the German edition. As is traditional, I’ll begin with the first sentence of the section:<\/p>\n

“Jo watched the ceiling as another sleepless night dragged on.”
\n= Jo betrachtete die Decke, w\u00e4hrend eine weitere schlaflose Nacht sich dahinschleppte.<\/em>
\n(You’ve got to love “dragged on” = dahinschleppte<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

“as if she were full of squirming baby mice”
\n= als w\u00fcrde es in ihrem Innern von winzigen M\u00e4usen nur so wimmeln<\/em><\/p>\n

“wandered” = streifte<\/em><\/p>\n

“deserted” = vollkommen menschenleer<\/em> (“completely people-empty”)<\/p>\n

This one’s interesting. “Flurd-Poffle” is translated Bodenhatz<\/em> which means something like “ground-hunt.” It’s another made-up word, but why was it translated at all?<\/p>\n

“a large, cold room with glass walls”
\n= ein gro\u00dfer, steriler Raum mit gl\u00e4sernen W\u00e4nden<\/em><\/p>\n

“harsh light” = grelles Neonlicht<\/em><\/p>\n

“little rips” = kleinen Kerben<\/em><\/p>\n

“pallor” = Bl\u00e4sse<\/em><\/p>\n

“a guard or a receptionist” = einem W\u00e4chter oder einem Pf\u00f6rtner<\/em><\/p>\n

“eerie” = gruselig<\/em><\/p>\n

“empty skin” = leere H\u00fclle<\/em><\/p>\n

“maximum security section” = Hochsicherheitstrakt<\/em><\/p>\n

“nurses” = Pfleger<\/em><\/p>\n

“made his long-dreaded return”
\n= seine so lange gef\u00fcrchtete R\u00fcckkehr inszeniert<\/em>
\n(“his so long feared return staged”)<\/p>\n

“a swank bachelor’s pad”
\n= eines prahlerischen Junggesellen<\/em><\/p>\n

“centerpiece” = Prunkst\u00fcck<\/em><\/p>\n

“swinging lounge music” = coole Swingmusik<\/em><\/p>\n

“off balance” = aus dem Gleichgewicht<\/em><\/p>\n

“sipped” = schl\u00fcrften<\/em><\/p>\n

“laboratory glassware” = Reagenzgl\u00e4sern<\/em><\/p>\n

“robotic merriness” = mechanische Unbek\u00fcmmerheit<\/em><\/p>\n

“that creeped Jo out”
\n= bei der Jo ein Schauder \u00fcber den R\u00fccken lief<\/em>
\n(“that Jo a shadow over her back ran”)<\/p>\n

“desperate lightheartedness” = verzweifelte Fr\u00f6hlichkeit<\/em><\/p>\n

“blithely” = schlichtweg<\/em><\/p>\n

They preserved alliteration:
\n“toast of the town” = Star der Stadt<\/em><\/p>\n

“interchangeable” = austauschbaren<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s very late and not, technically, Sunday any more, so I’m going to end with this sentence in the middle of a section:<\/p>\n

“Wherever he went, he warped everything around him into an empty jest.”
\n= Wohin auch immer er ging, er verzerrte alles um sich herum zu einem hohlen Witz.<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s all for tonight. It’s fun now to imagine scenarios where you could possibly use these new German words you know.<\/p>\n

Bis zum n\u00e4chsten Mal!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of Memorial Day weekend and having already finished reading 5 books this weekend and written 3 reviews, let’s do a short, late night Sonderling Sunday! Sonderling Sunday is that time of the week when I play with language by looking at the German translation of children’s books. It’s been awhile since my last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-der-orden-der-seltsamen-sonderlinge","category-sonderling-sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}