[Haskell-cafe] Learn you

Valentin ROBERT valentin.robert.42 at gmail.com
Sat May 5 20:01:29 CEST 2012


Dear Kazu,

Could you please answer my concerns about the license under which LYAH
is distributed? (see my initial reply to the thread)
Additionally, under what license is your translation work re-distributed?

Sorry if this has been addressed already.

Best regards,
- Valentin

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Ptival <valentin.robert.42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> For the French translation, I dropped the humor altogether. It just doesn't
> feel right to translate a reference to a meme. Plus the English phrasing is
> quite impossible to express... it would have been really dumb had I tried to
> stick to it.
> So I opted for a close translation, but sadly, grammatically correct.
>
> As a completely different subject, has this publishing been allowed by the
> original author?
> AFAIK, the book is under CC BY-NC-SA, and the sell price displayed on Amazon
> seems high for a "factory price".
>
> Best,
> - Valentin
>
> On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 7:18:23 PM UTC+2, Brent Yorgey wrote:
>>
>> I am curious how the title was translated.  Of course, the English
>> title "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good" uses intentionally
>> ungrammatical/unidiomatic English for humorous effect.  Is the
>> Japanese title also ungrammatical/unidiomatic Japanese?  Or do
>> Japanese speakers not find that humorous?
>>
>> -Brent
>>
>> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 03:59:18PM +0900, Kazu Yamamoto wrote:
>> > Hello cafe,
>> >
>> > Translating "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good" into Japanese was
>> > finished and will be published on 22 May. I guess it's worth watching
>> > its cover page:
>> >
>> >
>> >         http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%81%99%E3%81%94%E3%81%84Haskell%E3%81%9F%E3%81%AE%E3%81%97%E3%81%8F%E5%AD%A6%E3%81%BC%E3%81%86-Miran-Lipova%C4%8Da/dp/4274068854
>> >
>> > There are two translators: Tanaka is the author of "peggy" and Muranushi
>> > is
>> > the author of "Monadius".
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > --Kazu
>> >
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