Quick linkspam of discussions elsenet

[kaberett]

• a discussion about the characterisation of Queter, how Breq feels about her, etc over on tumblr
  
• I wrote a critique of the German translator's approach to Ancillary Justice as described in the Interfictions article, and consequently came across some discussion of the Hungarian translation
  
• Ann Leckie refuses to comment on whether she is in fact the pen name for the Anaander Mianaai signed to Orbit.

Comments

[davidgillon]

If gender is important to the discussion, or the people involved, then misgendering becomes more important, and if you're regularly getting into those kinds of discussions, then you're probably going to learn more/care more. So to a degree it's self-correcting. OTOH Radchaai in general are enormously culturally obliterative. If you've gotten a Radchaai to speak anything other than Radchaai, then they've come an immense distance. But the overwhelming majority will only speak Radchaai, and Radchaai only does 'she'.

And thinking about this makes me wonder if the Radchaai actually use the AIs as translators and in most situations don't bother learning languages themselves, even where the circumstances would normally require it. In which case Breq paying more attention is only logical, they're the Radchaai version of a linguist.

[kaberett]

(so we know that the Translators' Office predated contact with the Presger because there's a frustrated and disparaging comment made about how important they've become; we also have the scenes on Shi'surna where Awn is in discussion with citizens where I... can't actually remember immediately if One Esk translates for her, but I'm watching the gravitational waves livestream so I'm not looking it up right now!)

[rmc28]

One Esk translates between Awn and Denz Ay, when Denz Ay is reporting finding the cache of guns.

(I looked it up)