Re: Need help choosing a novel to read

From: Kevin Wayne Williams (kww.nihongo_at_verizon.nut)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:35:20 -0400

Chris Kern wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:19:24 -0000, "Paul Blay"
> <ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk> posted the following:
>
>
>>Hmm, yes but it's not the vocabulary that's the "wrong sort of odd".
>>
>>It's more like this (paraphrasing) ...
>>
>>Me : So what do you think of it?
>>Japanese teacher : The Japanese is rather odd.
>
>
> Do you have more specifics on exactly how it's "odd"?

Can't speak on these books specifically, but take a look at the comments
on the translation of "Mother Night" I read. People never said the
translator was wrong, but nobody much cared for any of his sentences,
either.
KWW

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