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Ten Little Chances to be Free ([personal profile] tenlittlebullets) wrote in [community profile] les_miserables 2014-03-31 11:39 pm (UTC)

All the archaism of Wilbour and then some, plus a generous helping of over-literal clunkiness that often crosses the line into outright inaccuracy. (My favorite has always been her rendering of Cosette saying to Valjean, "Avec ce machin-là sur la tête, j'ai l'air de Madame Chien-Fou!"--no, Hapgood, it doesn't mean 'machine.' The French have a breathtaking assortment of words for 'thingamawhatsit.')

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