Heh, the Wilhelmine is definitely also easier because I know much of the material already, but yeah, I can tell that in addition the English is just easier to read and that it's pitched to a less already-knowledgeable audience (me!) :)
Speaking of which, are you interested in doing MT together, after Lehndorff? If so, I should probably order it now, to give it time to arrive (since the Kindle version isn't available in the US, grrr) and me to format ONE THOUSAND pages.
Yes pleeeeease! OMG I forgot that because I have a translator now, I don't have to wait for the translation (which I just checked and is still in translator limbo). Yay!
Yes pleeeeease! OMG I forgot that because I have a translator now, I don't have to wait for the translation (which I just checked and is still in translator limbo). Yay!
Oh, goody! I wasn't sure if me going, "read this thing with me!" "and also this other thing!" all the time at you ;) meant that you had too much on your plate now and weren't up for MT any more.
Because you were the one who said you might be interested in reading it together, back in June when we were plotting out our reading group. You said there wasn't much nonfic you were interested in reading in German, and then said you would be interested in MT. But then I proposed Lehndorff and got you to read Oster with me, and I didn't hear any more about MT, so I wasn't sure. But I kept it on my mental list, because I need a lot of German practice before I'm ready to start tackling things that I can't readily put through Google translate.
Ordered! Should arrive sometime in October. We'll probably end up doing it during Yuletide, but we can always go slowly, and I have Horowski to keep me in practice for German.
Also, I need to figure out just how bad a job Google OCR does at blackletter font, because I'm sure you'd like to read volume 2 of Lehndorff someday, maybe after Yuletide at this rate, and unlike volume 1, it hasn't been reprinted in modern font.
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MT
Date: 2020-09-26 04:54 pm (UTC)Speaking of which, are you interested in doing MT together, after Lehndorff? If so, I should probably order it now, to give it time to arrive (since the Kindle version isn't available in the US, grrr) and me to format ONE THOUSAND pages.
Yes pleeeeease! OMG I forgot that because I have a translator now, I don't have to wait for the translation (which I just checked and is still in translator limbo). Yay!
Re: MT
Date: 2020-09-26 05:09 pm (UTC)Oh, goody! I wasn't sure if me going, "read this thing with me!" "and also this other thing!" all the time at you ;) meant that you had too much on your plate now and weren't up for MT any more.
Because you were the one who said you might be interested in reading it together, back in June when we were plotting out our reading group. You said there wasn't much nonfic you were interested in reading in German, and then said you would be interested in MT. But then I proposed Lehndorff and got you to read Oster with me, and I didn't hear any more about MT, so I wasn't sure. But I kept it on my mental list, because I need a lot of German practice before I'm ready to start tackling things that I can't readily put through Google translate.
Ordered! Should arrive sometime in October. We'll probably end up doing it during Yuletide, but we can always go slowly, and I have Horowski to keep me in practice for German.
Also, I need to figure out just how bad a job Google OCR does at blackletter font, because I'm sure you'd like to read volume 2 of Lehndorff someday, maybe after Yuletide at this rate, and unlike volume 1, it hasn't been reprinted in modern font.
...Reading group is SO GREAT.