Tim Peters wrote: > Non-English translations have real challenges, and because this series > is more popular than the Python Reference Manual these days, there's a > lot of fascinating info to be found. For example, I think the > Japanese translator deserves a Major Award for their heroic attempt to > translate Ron's "Uranus" pun: > > http://www.cjvlang.com/Hpotter/wordplay/uranus.html >
The translations of Pratchett's works are also quite amazing feats. I think that when they were looking for a polish translator one of the people they auditioned told them something along the lines of "You can't even think like this in polish." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list