[ExI] Looking for a science fiction author.

[efc at swisscows.email]

Translating into swedish suffers a similar fate. Corporate texts come out 
ok, but poetry not so much. On the other hand, when it comes to 
translating from swedish to english I have no idea.

Best regards,
Daniel


On Wed, 11 Oct 2023, Giovanni Santostasi via extropy-chat wrote:

> The translation into Italian would be good from a technical perspective but most of the poetic meaning in the writing would be
> lost in translation. 
> I tried translating with GPT-4 several Italian songs and I had to revisit the translation to convey better the meaning. Dialogue or
> poetry is more difficult to translate for GPT-4. 
> Giovanni 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 5:11 PM Gadersd via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>       GPT 4 is capable of translating the book into just about any language. I wonder how the quality would compare to that of
>       a professional author? It would be an interesting experiment. Assuming the book is 100,000 words it would cost about $32
>       to translate it with GPT 4.
>
>       > On Oct 11, 2023, at 7:43 AM, efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>       >
>       > Hello dear list members,
>       >
>       > As some of you might have noticed (the ones who managed to get through the massive multiple worlds thread) I referenced
>       a favourite
>       > swedish science fiction book of mine that never was published in english.
>       >
>       > To my great delight, I now managed to initiate a dialogue with the rights holder of this book (relative of the original
>       author who
>       > sadly is no longer with us) about translating it into english.
>       >
>       > I have a vague memory that one (or more) regular readers (and writers) on this list are science fiction authors.
>       >
>       > If so, I wonder if it would be possible to write you an email in private with some questions and for some advice when
>       it comes to the
>       > project of getting this book published in english?
>       >
>       > Best regards,
>       > Daniel
>       >
>       >
>       >
>       >
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