# One of my translations might be published!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2000, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-translations-might-be-published/22690 "2000-06-17T06:59:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-translations-might-be-published/22690/1 "2000-06-17T06:59:30Z")
The Dutch guy who is editing my Esperanto translation of John Ralston Saul’s _The Doubter’s Companion_ is very impressed - calls it _“aperiginda - ech ‘-enda’ - verko”_ [a work which is worthy to be - no, has to be - published]. And he edits a very important literary magazine, so his opinion is definitely worth something!! I’m really happy! My work might be published!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-translations-might-be-published/22690/2 "2000-06-17T08:07:54Z")
Would this be the first time you’re published? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-translations-might-be-published/22690/3 "2000-06-17T08:17:45Z")
Well, a book, at any rate. I had a book review published in Fonto (the journal this guy edits). ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-translations-might-be-published/22690/4 "2000-06-17T09:04:27Z")
Congratulations, Matt! (And to think I get happy when someone replies to me here) ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-translations-might-be-published/22690/5 "2000-06-17T11:39:45Z")
Bonega laboro, matt! I look forward to seeing it in the Catalog next year. 😃 I had a similar pleasure back in '96 when I got a translation published in St. Petersburg - admittedly I should have known better than to tackle an entire book with no experience whatsoever, but there’s a real thrill in having an honest-to-God book on your shelves with your name on the flyleaf. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-translations-might-be-published/22690/6 "2000-06-17T11:58:57Z")
Olent: jam eldonighis verko via? Chu? Kiel titolas? Pri kio temas? Kie ghi acheteblas? ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-translations-might-be-published/22690/7 "2000-06-17T12:53:23Z")
Matt: It’s called “Psychological Paradoxes of Conducting” by Georgy L. Erzhemsky, and, while it is indeed an interesting work, I would not dare suggest you go out and get the English translation because I really did a horrible job of it. Someday, perhaps four or five years from now, with some experience under my belt, I may contact him or his children with regard to doing it over again. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-translations-might-be-published/22690/8 "2000-06-18T07:29:18Z")
Matt, I’m happy for you. And I promise, the moment that Esperanto becomes the universal language, I’ll run right out and buy that book. Okay, that was a cheap shot. I’m sorry, because I admire people who learn Esperanto. It seems to be for one of two reasons; either a belief in communication making the world a better place or else because they have the gonads to sit down and do something tough simply to do it. “Because it’s there,” and all. Both are good reasons to me.