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| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5866 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 9 of 12 31 March 2012 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
I know what you mean. I have the Dutch audiobook "Soldaat van Oranje" (A Dutch classic) and an e-book. They could hardly be more different. You'd almost think it was a different book, but I guess a very different version. They are both about the same length, so the audio does not seem to be an abridged version. As you say, very annoying. So it would be really nice to have some confirmed "sightings" of actual parallel audio/text books. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 10 of 12 01 April 2012 at 1:01am | IP Logged | |||||
I think in general if the publishing house is the same and the design is the same or similar AND there's no word abridged anywhere, it's likely to be the same book. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 11 of 12 01 April 2012 at 1:09am | IP Logged | |||||
I believe the Tintenherz trilogy matches the real book, and it's very nicely read. The English translation is fairly good as well, though very occasional sentences are missing. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7205 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 12 of 12 01 April 2012 at 2:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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Perhaps it makes sense to have a list of who did the translation for the audiobook and whether or not it is an abreviated version. From there, it's easier to know whether the translation might be expected to be exact or not.
For instance, with the Dan Brown novels where the audiobook doesn't match the newer translation it is because the original translation was poor enough to merit a quick redo. Older works, like say "The Scarlet Letter" or "A Christmas Carol" have been faithfully retranslated by more than one person and that's I think where the more typical frustration comes in. E.G., works in the public domain from which there are several translations that could have been chosen as the basis for the audiobook. With the information on who did the translation, then the search can be to find the other media, book, or audiobook that matches. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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