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Fcrate:
@Otlan: Would be awesome. If you're ever available for that, give me a shout.
@Regen: Kingkiller Chronicles is amazing, but maybe the long wait ruined it for me a bit. I suggest you hold off on reading "The Wise Man's Fear" until 2022 at the earliest.
Meanwhile, there was a novella about Auri. Did you reach the Auri's part yet? You'll love this character.
About the translation: it's actually the opposite for us in Arabic. I remember buying the Harry Potter books back when they were first published, and the books were roughly the same size, although the translation was horrible, even if I didn't notice that at the time. I knew it was bad, but not exactly how bad. When we got to book 5. I missed the first print, and on the second one, a translator who actually knew what she was doing took over and it was beautifully done. It was 65-75% of the original book, which I bought a year later at the book fair.
And still, no matter how beautifully done a translation is, I still prefer the original nowadays. Somethings are completely dependent on the culture and can only be approximated.
I'm also not a fan of horror movies. I read lots of horror when I was a kid though, and it was always fun. I once tried to read it as it meant to be read, in the dark, 3 am, on candlelight while everyone is asleep. I had nightmares for a week.
Dina:
I was never a fan of nightmares either :D
I had never read Dresden in Spanish because I've had bad experiences with other books (example, Harry Potter 2) and the titles themselves are...meh. Of course, it is difficult to translate the puns in the titles (Like Fool Moon, full moon) but even so, it seems that they are not even trying. For instance, Summer Knight was translated "El caballero", which of course means "The Knight". It leaves out the Summer part at all (of course, it is impossible to make the pun with Summer Night in Spanish). Anyway, I think the size of the books in Spanish are roughly the same than in English, but I am not sure. I never thought about that.
I did not know if Arabic was "short" or "long". They say it is sweet though. I always remember the first time I'd heard the legend about the language. Fcrate, I am sure you are familiar with it, so correct me if I say something wrong, but I tell it for the other folks. The story goes that eons ago, when God was creating the world, he has angels doing the "furniture". And the angel that was taking the bag with all the sand for the beaches and dunes and stuff had a problem, the bag broke and a lot of sand fell over Arabia (in the wide sense of all the area). Of course, as legends go, that couldn't be undone. But to make up for that, God gave a few extra gifts to the Arabs. First was the most beautiful night in the world, so the stars could cheer the hearts of the people, and show them their way in the desert. Then, the camel, who was able to take them long distances without needing as much water as a horse, for instance, and who would be invaluable for them. And last, the most beautiful language in the world, so they could tell stories and poems about the stars, and the camels, and the desert, and the love, and the life, and God, I guess. :)
Fcrate:
Actually I've never heard about that part before. The old Arabs worshipped quite a few gods, but nothing much of them survived the coming of Islam, except their names.
As for Islam itself, there is a verse in Quran that God gifted us the camels for ease of travel through the desert, and iirc the sky to gaze upon and remember His name, but nothing specific to Arabs themselves, but humans as a whole. There is nothing in Islam to say that Arabs were especially gifted with anything. In fact there's a quote by the prophet that says "No blessing upon either Arab or Foreigner except for piety" which means the pious of whichever race is the most gifted. But I digress. Your legend is quite beautiful though. :)
Dina:
Oh :o
Well, I suppose there are variations for every legend. It is pretty though.
Regenbogen:
I made a wand: ;D
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mzUVeUm3oLbPak07gIO0CVl2vRynm9ZF/view?usp=drivesdk
My daughter and some of her friends wanted to dress as death eaters. We have black cloaks with cowl ;D (I was thinking of holding a skull instead of a wand, but the kids don't know about Bob, LOL.), tattoos painted on the left arm, black masks and my cool wand.
But as we are in some sort of second lockdown now, they have to stay at home.
At work I painted tiny skulls on flasks of diluent and other things. During Christmas time I always paint little Santas and angels everywhere.
My daughter painted this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n2KjXMjpjGRxODCijhknq-WA7sL2ZfLn/view?usp=drivesdk
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