{"id":4703,"date":"2010-05-19T12:26:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T12:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/19\/crikey-ive-been-anglicised\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T12:26:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T12:26:28","slug":"crikey-ive-been-anglicised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/19\/crikey-ive-been-anglicised\/","title":{"rendered":"Crikey, I&#8217;ve Been Anglicised!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent yesterday going over proposed copy edits to Anglicise <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> for the forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/How-Teach-Quantum-Physics-Your\/dp\/1851687793\">UK edition<\/a>, which adds &#8220;Quantum&#8221; to the title, and will have all new cover art, etc. This means that clergy in the book are now permitted to marry, all book property belonging to the Catholic Church has been seized by the Crown, and an &#8220;s&#8221; has been added to &#8220;math&#8221; every time it appears (weirdly, it doesn&#8217;t seem to actually pluralize the word, leading to the jarring construction &#8220;maths is&#8221; in several places). My favorite parts of the changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The evil squirrel in Chapter 10 gets my attention by saying &#8220;Pssst! Human dude!&#8221; in the American version. The Anglicisation of this was &#8220;Oi! Human!&#8221; which I absolutely love.<\/li>\n<li>At one point later in that conversaion, I say &#8220;Wow,&#8221; which was changed to &#8220;Crikey.&#8221; I have a bit of a tough time imagining myself saying that&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The longest stretch of text in which the word &#8220;bunny&#8221; does <em>not<\/em> appear is about 25 manuscript pages. I know this, because every instance of &#8220;bunny&#8221; was changed to &#8220;rabbit,&#8221; which is the one change I&#8217;m going to strongly argue against&#8211; while I know it sounds a little childish and silly, that was a deliberate choice for the dog voice. It&#8217;s supposed to sound a little childish, to emphasize her naive charm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, the changes were pretty minor, but it&#8217;s interesting to see the differences. In general, things became a little more formal, at least to American ears (&#8220;Yeah&#8221; became &#8220;Yes,&#8221; etc.), and a few idioms needed to be changed (&#8220;Thanks, buddy, you&#8217;re a prince&#8221; from the evil squirrel was changed for obvious reasons&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>So, anyway, if you&#8217;re of a UKadian persuasion, and have been holding off buying the book in hopes of getting it translated, there&#8217;s an edition coming to a bookshop near you in October-ish. It&#8217;ll have a spiffy new cover design and all (though I&#8217;m not able to show it to you yet), so even if you have a copy of the current edition, you should buy a second, to have the full collection. And that way, you can compare the language in the two to see which you prefer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent yesterday going over proposed copy edits to Anglicise How to Teach Physics to Your Dog for the forthcoming UK edition, which adds &#8220;Quantum&#8221; to the title, and will have all new cover art, etc. This means that clergy in the book are now permitted to marry, all book property belonging to the Catholic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/19\/crikey-ive-been-anglicised\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crikey, I&#8217;ve Been Anglicised!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,142,7,37,132,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-how-to-teach","category-physics","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}