On 31/01/2009, at 3:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>
>> I've also tried to dig through both Bruno's thesis with the help of
>> google translator. It works for a while but soon one hits a wall
>> with a
>> difficult sentence/paragraph which is hard to understand even if it
>> stands as the author inteded - and extra hard to understand if its
>> meaning is corrupted by the translation.
>>
>> Bruno, I'd love to read your thesis in english, but I fully
>> understand
>> how hard it must be to get a good translation that you would be happy
>> with. At the end, it might be easier to start from scratch, take the
>> essential from both thesis, update a little bit and write a book in
>> english on your own directly. Is that an option for you?
>
Bruno reads beautifully in French.
I have offered to translate some of his stuff - the Brussels thesis is
a wonderful read in French, I can't really understand the stuff about
the construction of the computer because I have no background in
computer science, but I can translate all the text into good,
idiomatic English if I could generate some little income in the
process. He has said "The road to hell is paved with the best of
intentions" to me in the past, and I agree with him on that, also that
publishing deals will benefit the publisher, not the author, but there
are many people (me included) who love his stuff now and wish it could
be presented to a wider audience.
Failing that, a few of you might have to learn French, which would
benefit your brain cells anyway. French is just English pronounced
wrongly anyway ;-)
K
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Received on Fri Jan 30 2009 - 21:20:45 PST