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Translating Humour
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Translating Humour

Shelly Bryant
Jul 9, 2019
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Translating Humour
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Humour is notoriously difficult to translate, with some even going so far as to suggest it is untranslatable. While I would not deny the difficulty of translating humour, I flatly reject the notion that it is untranslatable, at least in the hands of a capable literary translator. In fact, I am even tempted to say that it is the handling of humour that t…

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