June 13, 2007

Today I received some proof copies from KPG. The first one is of Jared Diamond’s Why Is Sex Fun? (the result of a teamwork and a lot of editing, I bet). The book actually has been published sometime before. And also… of Larry Gonick’s History of the Modern World I (published here in Indonesia under the title ‘Kartun Riwayat Peradaban Modern Jilid I’, not ‘Kartun Riwayat Peradaban Jilid IV’ like I mentioned before).

I really enjoyed working on Gonick’s book, and although my editor naturally edited my translation here and there to make it even more funny, lively, and correct, I’m glad that some of the jokes I translated were accepted. Well, you can’t find a perfect translation for ‘It’s heretic clobbering time!’, bless The Thing, but there are jokes that can be adapted, such as:

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