{"id":36685,"date":"2019-08-25T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T02:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=36685"},"modified":"2019-08-25T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T02:38:00","slug":"sonderling-sunday-ready-for-a-duel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=36685","title":{"rendered":"Sonderling Sunday – Ready for a Duel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s 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. This week, I’m back to the book that drives this whole series, The Order of Odd-Fish<\/a><\/em>, by James Kennedy<\/a>, otherwise known as Der Orden der Seltsamen Sonderlinge<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Last time<\/a>, we left off in the middle of Chapter Twenty-Five, on page 344 in the English edition, Seite 437 auf Deutsch.<\/em><\/p>\n

The first sentence has some fun words to know:
\n“Jo’s ready room was a moldy locker area that it seemed had never been cleaned.”
\n= Jos Garderobe war ein muffiger Umkleideraum, der offenbar noch nie ges\u00e4ubert worden war.<\/em><\/p>\n

(My day is complete, now that I can call moldy things muffiger<\/em>. Seems perfect for that fuzzy appearance…. Umkleideraum<\/em> means “undress-room.”)<\/p>\n

“the tiles were dirty and chipped” = die Fliesen waren schmutzig und angeschlagen<\/em><\/p>\n

I hope you never need to use this sentence:
\n“and the rusty plumbing dripped with mysterious juices.”
\n= und aus den rostigen Rohrleitungen tropften mysteri\u00f6se Fl\u00fcssigkeiten.<\/em><\/p>\n

“teasing” = Neckereien<\/em><\/p>\n

“unexpected tenderness” = unerwarteter Z\u00e4rtlichkeit<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, this one’s much better in German:
\n“a little gasp”
\n= einen kleinen \u00dcberraschungsschrei<\/em>
\n(“a little surprise-cry”)<\/p>\n

Germans can make up words at a moment’s notice:
\n“cat’s-head helmet” = Katzenhelm<\/em><\/p>\n

I never get tired of saying this word:
\n“silver whiskers” = silberfarbenen Schnurrbarthaaren<\/em><\/p>\n

“pointed ears” = spitzen Ohren<\/em><\/p>\n

“insults” = Beleidigungen<\/em><\/p>\n

“hard-core” = hartgesotten<\/em> (“hard-boiled”)<\/p>\n

Okay, this just doesn’t capture the English:
\n“Atta girl”
\n= So will ich dich h\u00f6ren, M\u00e4dchen<\/em>
\n(“That’s how I want to hear you, girl”)<\/p>\n

Another one that has come up before, whose sound I love:
\n“sipped” = schl\u00fcrfte<\/em><\/p>\n

“hero” = Heldin<\/em><\/p>\n

“hissed and bubbled” = zischte und blubberte<\/em><\/p>\n

“tickling her veins” = prickelnd durch ihre Adern<\/em><\/p>\n

“bruise” = blauer Fleck<\/em> (“blue spot”)<\/p>\n

“putrid air” = stinkende Luft<\/em><\/p>\n

“fabulous” = fabelhaft<\/em><\/p>\n

“demolish” = auseinandernehmen<\/em> (“out-another-take”)<\/p>\n

“pep talk” = aufmunternder Worte<\/em><\/p>\n

“usher” = Lakai<\/em><\/p>\n

“stirrups” = Steigb\u00fcgel<\/em> (“climb-hangers”)<\/p>\n

“tumultuous crowd” = tosende Menge<\/em><\/p>\n

“announcer’s” = Ansagers<\/em><\/p>\n

“cheering” = spornten<\/em><\/p>\n

“tying her up” = sie einzuschn\u00fcren<\/em><\/p>\n

“lolled” = l\u00fcmmelte<\/em><\/p>\n

“convention of eelmen” = Abordnung von Aalm\u00e4nnern<\/em><\/p>\n

“streamers” = Papierbahnen<\/em><\/p>\n

And I’ll stop right before the duel begins:<\/p>\n

“She looked up and swallowed. This was it.”
\n= Dann blickte sie hoch und schluckte. Das war’s.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gute Nacht! I suspect this week if I run across an Abordnung von Aalm\u00e4nnern<\/em>, I will give out at least einen kleinen \u00dcberraschungsschrei<\/em>! Bis bald!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time for Sonderling Sunday, that time of the week when I play with language by looking at the German translation of children’s books. This week, I’m back to the book that drives this whole series, The Order of Odd-Fish, by James Kennedy, otherwise known as Der Orden der Seltsamen Sonderlinge. Last time, we left […]<\/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-36685","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\/36685","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=36685"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36690,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36685\/revisions\/36690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}