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Niphredil Baggins · 03-05-2002, 08:07 AM

I'm Finnish, and I study English philology. The Finnish translations are quite as good as they only can be, except for the first translation of The Hobbit, which is hilarious, because they translated it as a children's book - all the names are different and so on.

03-05-2002, 08:07 AM	#8
Niphredil Baggins Wight Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Finland Posts: 118	I'm Finnish, and I study English philology. The Finnish translations are quite as good as they only can be, except for the first translation of The Hobbit, which is hilarious, because they translated it as a children's book - all the names are different and so on. __________________ Wistful, willful, wingless, fly!