18-01-2008, 19:06
Ce n’est pas juste. Tu triches. Tu donnes les réponses. Moi, j’ai passé l’après-midi à relire Bilbo en français et The Hobbit in English. Je suis arrivé au chapitre III.<br>Certes, il y a des erreurs flagrantes. Mais je te propose un autre jeu de traduction.<br>Comment traduire l’accent des Trolls ?<br>On trouve à peu près partout qu’ils imitent l’accent cockney. Pour rédiger mon livre, j’ai demandé à des anglophones de me confirmer s’il s’agissait bien de cet accent.<br>Voilà les réponses :<br>« Wherever their accent hails from (so to speak), I would say the Trolls' speech is supposed to be loutish, ill-mannered, ungraceful, and simply conversational.”<br>“That particular aspect of the trolls' accent seems more Mancunian (Manchester) to me than Cockney. Tolkien will have been more familiar with the accents of the West Midlands and the North West than Cockney, as he lived just outside Birmingham as a child, and served in the Lancashire Fusiliers in WW1, where he would have encountered such speech among the enlisted men. It is also short for your and you're, but I haven't got The Hobbit to hand to see if it's used thus by Tolkien.”<br>“It's West Country. Bristol, Somerset etc.”<br>“Here's an interesting conversation piece for our members from different countries. If Tolkien envisioned a West Midland or Northwest English accent to be symbolic of someone who is "loutish, ill-mannered" and the like, what accent would the Trolls have if they had something other than an English nationality?<br>For instance, if the Trolls were American (and who says they weren't ) they might have the twang typical of someone who grew up in the "hollers" of Appalachia, or a drawl characteristic of the Deep South, or maybe a thick Brooklyn accent.<br>Welcome to the neighborhood, French Teacher! Maybe you can answer your own question by giving us the region of France that has the stigma of having a loutish or uncouth population.”<p>Comment rendre en français ce savoureux dialogue sans trahir Tolkien ?<p>Alain Tesnière