I know there are a few professional translators on ILF, but most of our members aren't. I thought it was interesting that you sometimes have to change things to help them stay the same. As we know here, often literal translations do not work.

http://www.thejournal.ie/translation-be ... 5-Jun2014/

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Good article.

One of the biggest challenges for people translating novels, I would think, is preserving the tone. You don't, for example, want to think you're reading an Irish re-imagination of, say, "The Hobbit." As much as possible, you want it to feel as if Tolkien himself just happened to write it in Irish (fat chance there, I know!), as a fluent and idiomatic Irish speaker.

Redwolf