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| Neco the Nightwraith | Dec 27 2014, 12:50 AM Post #1 |
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Living the Right Life
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Has anyone seen this cover art before? http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1268538821l/7859966.jpg |
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| Hakkikt | Dec 27 2014, 03:57 AM Post #2 |
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Romanian for "Dedication": cover of a translation? Kkkttt Hkkt 1457 [0357GMT, 2057PST] Sa. 27 Dec. 2014. |
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| Neco the Nightwraith | Dec 27 2014, 08:48 PM Post #3 |
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I was more interested in the art, and the portrayal of the mecheiti. Just wondered if anyone might know anything about it. :baji :t |
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| Asicho | Dec 28 2014, 08:16 PM Post #4 |
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I hadn't seen it before, but I kind of like it. Not how I'd imagined anything but very atmospheric. (Well, except that Bren looks a bit like Jareth from a distance...oh dear.) I like the costuming for Jago, as well; the leather looks almost armour-like. |
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| Mitha | Dec 29 2014, 02:16 PM Post #5 |
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(Waves "Hello!" To Asicho) :flower: New to me, also. I really like the woolly mecheita, much more as I had imagined them, and the contrast between "riding beast" and "high tech weapon" is very nice. I also like the hint of "ship" or "station" in the framing porthole. Do you know which story this art is for? :t |
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| Neco the Nightwraith | Dec 29 2014, 08:15 PM Post #6 |
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I don't know which one it's supposed to be. Hakkikt said it was "Dedication", so what book that is supposed to be, I don't know. |
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| Mitha | Dec 29 2014, 08:38 PM Post #7 |
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Some poking around found an English reference: "Dědic (Atevi, #3) - C.J. Cherryh A nice wrap-up to the first trilogy in the Foreigner universe." That would make sense with the artwork, given what could be another human on the third mecheita. |
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| Hakkikt | Dec 30 2014, 04:59 AM Post #8 |
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Presumably it's the [or a] Romanian-language edition of Inheritor, possibly as it either doesn't translate into Rom*anian or clashes with another title, or has other associations with Romania we don't know. Kkkttt Hkkt 1558 [0458GMT, 2158PST] Tu. 30 Dec. 2014. |
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| BlueCatShip | Dec 30 2014, 04:47 PM Post #9 |
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Interesting. I want to look at that cover again. Minor correction to what nand' Hakkikkt said: The Romanian language is Romanian, at least that's what we call it in English. "Rom" and "Roma" and "Romani" are words for Romani, that is, Gypsies. Rom refers to a man or boy, the form for a woman or girl is different, iirc. Roma are the people as a group, a culture and identity, and Romani is for the language. From what I'd read, the words carry also a connotation of a cultural, linguistic, and moral/ethical heritage, as well as referring to the people. So one is a good Rom and has Roma spirit, etc. I was surprised at the history and culture going on with Roma, Gypsies. They've stayed a coherent group, mostly due to outside pressure against them, over hundreds of years, from India through to Europe. Meanwhile, the Romanians are their own national group, a Slavic people mixed half-and-half with Latin language, much like others (Gauls, Bretons, Franks, English, Iberians, etc.) had a fusion with Latin culture to produce several Romance languages and others influenced by Romance (Latinate) languages. Hmm.... Dedic, with the inverse circumflex (caron, I think) over the e, for "Dedication" ...The choice in change of the title seems to at least refer to Bren's (and others') traits, but I don't see the direct connection. That said, international translations often have very different cover art and retitling, to suit what publishers there think their market is, even if their readers are far more sophisticated now. You'll see some covers that are even more suggestive or outlandish than is typical of American SF&F cover art. Heh. Hmm, there should be some equivalent concept, or close it, for an inheritor, an inheritance, a heritage, an heir, a legacy, a dowry, perhaps, though males typically don't have a dowry that I know of (sorry, Cajeiri-ji). Additionally, "heir" or "-her-" or "-herit-" are Latin roots, so there would likely (but not always) be a Latin-derived in Romanian for an inheritor, or at least the concept should be there. Sometimes, they would have a Slavic-derived root word, much like English uses a lot of Germanic-derived root words underneath the Latinate and French layers. Really neat cover art. The mecheiti look very elephantine there, though. Not necessarily a fault. Though if they'd used an earlier (prehistoric evolutionary ancestor) of elephants, that might've been more "foreign" and alien. Still, very interesting, neat art. |
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| Hakkikt | Dec 31 2014, 10:53 PM Post #10 |
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Seriously? I was just abbreviating. And yes, I know who the Roma are. Seeing as they're originally Indian, they're no more 'Romanian' than they are 'Gypsy', >from 'Egyptian'<, another European misconception about their background. It's like saying I'm German because I arrived via Frankfurt-am-Main airport. Aryans - like us - have been leaving the SubContinent for thousands of years, the Roma are merely the most recent migration, long after the Huns, Goths, Visigoths, Vandals, etc. Like everyone else from Western Europe, I probably have as much related DNA as anyone. kkkttkt Hkkt 1002 [2302GMT, 1602PST] Th. 1 Jan. 2014. |
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