Reading aloud and invented languages: translating Du Iz Tak?, by Carson Ellis
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This paper examines the translation of Carson Ellis’s Du Iz Tak? into Spanish and French. Du Iz Tak?, which won the E. B. White Read Aloud, is characterised by the fact that it is written in an invented language, the language of bugs. The purpose of the following pages is to study the mechanisms that lead to the translation of Ellis’s work and to analyse how Koi ke bzzz? and ¿Mau iz io? represent two ways of approaching the translation of invented languages and of considering readability.
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