[Sca-cooks] Recipe Translations
David Friedman
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Thu Apr 25 21:09:16 PDT 2013
On the subject of translations, one point that struck me about
Nasrullah's al-Warraq translation--I'm not sure if I've mentioned it
here or not.
She routinely translates "uqiya" as ounce, without explaining that the
pound (ratl) has twelve ounces, like the troy pound, not the sixteen
that most readers will assume. So her translation is correct, but
misleading.
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David/Cariadoc
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