[Wikipedia-l] anglicization is stupid

Wed Nov 20 20:58:04 UTC 2002

--- Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> When you try to translate everything the very real
> risk is that you end 
> up using a form that nobody recognizes.  If a name
> is not widely known, 
> we should be favouring the original language form,
> with standard 
> transliterations when that is applicable.  With
> novels and movies we 
> should be favouring the original language title;
> there is no way that we 
> should be attempting the translation of titles that
> have never been 
> produced in English translations.  Whether the title
> of Camus's novel 
> "L'Ã‰tranger" should be the literal "The Stranger"
> or the metaphorical 
> "The Outsider" is a matter of literary debate that
> is well beyond the 
> scope of this encyclopaedia.  Using the original
> title for the main 
> entry avoids that problem completely.

Beyond the scope of the encyclopédie Eclecticology,
translation of "l'étranger" in "the stranger" would be
a disastrous one.
Just as, if I ever write an entry for "stranger in a
strange land" (un péché personnel), I will keep the
real english title and not try to translate it. ;-))

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