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Questions about changing work from one language to another.

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Is a glossary needed in a novel?

You should also consider a third alternative. Is there a character in your story who will have the same difficulty as the reader with the "foreign" words? Having a piece of dialogue that makes the mea …
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Do publishers really need to translate between UK and US English?

Differences in spelling are a relatively minor impediment to cross-cultural culture. The use of completely different terms for the same thing (footpath, sidewalk) can usually be understood from the co …
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What's a word for a person who took a very rough story and made it into a book?

Perhaps Adapted by ..... from an oral history of ..... translated from the German by ..... Your contribution has been to convert from one genre (an oral recount) to another (a printed text). In many …
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