Comments on: French Teen Posts His Own Translation of Harry Potter, Is Arrested http://jason.stephaniesmith.com/2007/08/08/french-teen-posts-his-own-translation-of-harry-potter-is-arrested/ The Fiction (mostly) of Jason L. Smith Sat, 19 May 2012 19:53:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: stephanie http://jason.stephaniesmith.com/2007/08/08/french-teen-posts-his-own-translation-of-harry-potter-is-arrested/#comment-20 stephanie Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:13:33 +0000 http://jason.stephaniesmith.com/2007/08/08/french-teen-posts-his-own-translation-of-harry-potter-is-arrested/#comment-20 I would not be wanting of the ear-candle flavoring legumes. Since Europeans are generally much better educated linguistically I suspect his version might be a wee bit more accurate than yours... but probably not by much, lol. What a bizarre story. What I don't understand is why Scholastic didn't arrange ahead of time to get the foriegn-language versions published simultaneously... were they THAT worried about secrecy that they couldn't trust their own publishing partners? I would not be wanting of the ear-candle flavoring legumes.

Since Europeans are generally much better educated linguistically I suspect his version might be a wee bit more accurate than yours… but probably not by much, lol.

What a bizarre story. What I don’t understand is why Scholastic didn’t arrange ahead of time to get the foriegn-language versions published simultaneously… were they THAT worried about secrecy that they couldn’t trust their own publishing partners?

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