#murderbot deciding to describe art as ’a boat’ in the finnish translation makes murderbot a big asshole too imo lmao

[thesora]

The Murderbot Diaries are finally being translated into my first language (Finnish) and I was super curious to see how ART’s name was going to be handled. So, I finally read Artificial Condition, and its name is Aivan Raivostuttava Tutkimuspaatti which translates to an Extremely Annoying Research-boat !

And it got me wondering how other translations have approached ART’s name. Has there been an effort to preserve the letters A, R and T or has ART been given a completely new acronym? Or has the original English name been kept?

Please let me know!!

#murderbot deciding to describe art as ’a boat’ in the finnish translation makes murderbot a big asshole too imo lmao #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #asshole research transport #perihelion #i am majoring in translation studies so i find this really interesting #it is a bastard no matter the language though<3 #to be honest the acronym EAR (extremely annoying research-transport) would be super funny hffjkdslal #’raivostuttava’ could also be translated as irritating or infuriating etc’ #and yeah i get that ’infuriating’ is the word closest to ’raivostuttava’ buuut i just thought that the possible acronym of EAR was too funny #so ’extremely annoying’ it is