How would Harry Potter have pronounced शहिवाख़्‍ का दर्पण, anyway?

Taking Lufthansa's Ark across the universe in search of my own Kobayashi Maru: The Sandalwood Bunny, aka Much ado about scooter

Sorting It All Out — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:19:18 GMT

Another of the stories about that India trip .... The last night I was there, Kumaran wanted to take

It is not always a conjunct; there are some letters, too!

Sorting It All Out — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:34:20 GMT

A few times since I posted How would Harry Potter have pronounced शहिवाख़्‍ का दर्पण, anyway? , I have

re: How would Harry Potter have pronounced शहिवाख़्‍ का दर्पण, anyway?

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:02:45 GMT

Wonder how they'll translate Half Blood Prince (अर्ध रक्त शहजादा?)

re: How would Harry Potter have pronounced शहिवाख़्‍ का दर्पण, anyway?

Pavanaja U B — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:28:33 GMT

Thanks Michael Kaplan, for a wonderful and knowledge imparting session. Everyone enjoyed the seesion. That was evident how people flocked with with questions even after 2 hours! They stayed back and asked questions, and had firendly informal discussions. What is more appreciated is your knowledge of the subject.

-Pavanaja

re: How would Harry Potter have pronounced शहिवाख़्‍ का दर्पण, anyway?

Pavanaja U B — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:24:59 GMT

Have you seen a localized Ferrari - vishvakannada.com/node/122 ?

-Pavanaja

re: How would Harry Potter have pronounced शहिवाख़्‍ का दर्पण, anyway?

Michael S. Kaplan — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:52:08 GMT

You mean there was a review that would have made it easier for me?

[sigh]

Ok, I'm over it. :-)

Very cool, and very cool that you do have lots of the issues I was curious about. I'll have to compare to see how well I did on the issue I did cover!

It was a great visit there, a lot of fun.....

re: How would Harry Potter have pronounced शहिवाख़्‍ का दर्पण, anyway?

Deepak — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:44:23 GMT

Hi Michael,

Thanks for making it to the user group! We all had a great time.

Here is a review that I had written when I had first come across the Hindi translation: http://deepakg.blogspot.com/2005/08/harry-potter-in-hindi.html. I cover some interesting points - including what they did with Halloween ;-).

Hope you'll find book 2 interesting too. They seem to have finished translating till Order Of Phoenix: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjul_Publishing_House_Pvt._Ltd.

They tried hard to localize quite a few things to local contexts. The title of the book for instance is पारस पत्थर (Paaras Patthar), which is a mythical stone that turns anything brought in contact with it into gold.

The original title in US was Philosopher's Stone and I don't think a literal translation would've made sense here :).

They still haven't done a thorough enough job. Halloween is mostly unheard of here (things are changing in big cities though) but they retained it. And at some places, things are really quite bad - "piece of cake" has been literally translated to, well केक का टुकङा, which means piece of cake :).

They did translate the Hogwarts house names and I found them quite funny.

Cheers,

Deepak

re: How would Harry Potter have pronounced शहिवाख़्‍ का दर्पण, anyway?

agarwalmk@"garam"mail.com — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:57:51 GMT

Thanks for all the posts about your India trip.

BTW, ख़्वाहिश and दर्पण are Urdu words written in Hindi.