Translating Dune

[Caid Ivik]

Not sure if anybody here can read this, but anyway - I found translating Dune into Church Slavonic of the 15th century quite rewarding in terms of fun. One also learns a bit of Latin along the process.

duna_cs.pdf

[Caid Ivik]

After two years, the story is finished - https://gitlab.uzh.ch/ivan.simko/dune_cs

Does not include the appendices and dictionary yet

[Gobalopper]

I can't understand it but impressive work!

[Andrew]

Good job

I assume this is the language?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Slavonic

[Adriano]

любо! (lubo!)

I mean "like" (in Old Slavonic).

Edited November 22, 2022 by Adriano

[MrFlibble]

What can I say... wow. I studied OCS at the University exactly 20 years ago, and I can more or less imagine the amount of work required to pull of such a feat. Congrats!

[Caid Ivik]

Thanks, in fact after 2 years I regretted writing it with later orthography (ѫ > ꙋ and the like), but it is still more comprehensible than anything else I wrote in the time...

I'm still working on the Terminology of Imperium (Словесезнанïе Царствïа), which is one of the harder parts.

[Caid Ivik]

Update: I went through the text again (3 years!) and archaized it even more (including ꙋ > ѫ where it etymologically makes sense), also terminology and recurring phrases are more consistent

The current state of work is available (as Word file) at GitLab - https://gitlab.uzh.ch/ivan.simko/dune_cs

I also just published an Old Church Slavonic translation of Little Prince in print – it is also about a young aristocrat lost in a desert, and not so prohibitive from the point of view of costs... But there is one Bulgarian guy, who was intrigued to make a rather limited edition of Дꙋна as well, so perhaps in the next 1-2 years...