Talk:Vera Kamsha

Novel title translations
To my knowledge, there are no official English translations of Kamsha's books yet, but I feel that some of the current title translations are slightly awkward and do not do the originals justice... Here are my suggestions (feel free to accept or ignore them as you see fit):


 * "Всходы ветра" => "Wind's Harvest" ("Growth" can be misinterpreted as "the act of something growing"; "Harvest" is better in the context of the books because the title probably refers to the line "The seeds have been sown" in prophecy of Eric from book two.)
 * "Красное на красном" => "Red on Red" (The definite article before the second "Red" is confusing, since there is no real noun that this adjective describes. A comparable English expression would be "blue on blue".)
 * "Зимний излом" => "The Winter Break" ("Twist" means "unexpected turn of events". I would translate "излом" as "break" because it's close to the original word stem (as in, "something breaking"), and also can be translated as "interruption", since there are no major war campaigns in that story arc.)
 * "Правда стали, ложь зеркал" => "Truth of Steel, Lies of Mirrors" ("False" as a translation of "ложь" is mostly found in computer logic discussions; the literary translation would be "lie" if it's a specific act of lying or "lies" if it is a generic thing, as in "mirrors always lie". Also, suggest changing to "Lies of Mirrors, Truth of Steel" to preserve the original title's meter.)
 * "Шар судеб" => "The Orb of Fates" ("Sphere" is often synonymous with "space", as in "atmosphere", while in the book itself the "шар судеб" metaphor is presented as a quite literal ball rolling down the slope. Orb is a less ambiguous translation. Also, "судеб" is a plural, so it should be either "Destinies" or "Fates"; I prefer the latter because it's shorter.)
 * "Синий взгляд смерти" => "Blue Gaze of Death" (Just to be more accurate to the original.)

Cheers. --Koveras ☭ 08:11, 26 July 2012 (UTC)