Tag: translation
How Do You Say “Uplift” in French? A look at translation in science fiction
Yael Sela-Shapiro did not wake up one morning and say, “I think I’ll translate English science fiction into Hebrew” — but after passing a test given by a small translation agency, it happened just the same. Armed with a slew of dictionaries and reference material, she began her work. One day, while translating Pullman’s His Dark Materials, she came across the words “General Oblation Board,” also known as “gobblers.”
And here’s the problem: Hebrew does not have a word for “oblation.”
