Unfaithful Translation: The Russian Thrawn Trilogy

Ever wonder about Star Wars in other countries? Welcome to another episode of my series Land Far Away: a Pop Culture Academy, where we take a deep dive into everything popular culture. This time I wanted to discuss the issue of free translation.

0:00 Introduction
1:05 The Unused Blueprint For Success
1:48 The Thrawn Trilogy by Zahn... and Ashmarina?
4:00 Final Moments of the Battle of Endor
5:41 Pellaeon's Weird Biographical Detail
6:48 Ashmarina's Weird Fixation on Corellia
7:24 Thrawn's Eye-Rolling Protégé
10:01 One Angry Droid
10:52 A Problematic Translation
12:14 Farewell

My chapter this video is based on is called "The Translator’s Voice: Introducing the Vvedensky Continuum of Free Translation Techniques".

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