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* Yuri Kalmykov teen in stocking v. Translators notes *
About the Author:
Sergey Lukjanenko, 30, is one teen in stocking of the today's most popular Russian
Sci-Fi writers. His first works were publi teen in stocking ished in 1988. Currently his
bibliography includes more than 40 titles of novels and teen in stocking short stories. The
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works also have a very well defined philosophical aspect. The novel offer teen in stocking red
to your attention was written in 1997 and became the real 'cult book' of the
Russi teen in stocking ian Internet.
Sergey is married, he lives in Moscow.
THE NOVEL teen in stocking "LABYRINTH OF REFLECTIONS" IS COPYRIGHTED BY SERGEY
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Several notes for the reader:
1). My English sucks. So it was obviously teen in stocking y way too presumptuous of me to
try to make a translation like this. It was my love to teen in stocking o this book teen in stocking only that
made me to venture into this adventure. ;-) I was hoping that t teen in stocking this novel is
really worth your kind attention (despite my ugly
English?).
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characters, as wel teen in stocking ll as some words/terms used, might be considered offensive
to some Western readers. In teen in stocking n fact, one such situation was even showed closer
to the end of the novel itself. teen in stocking . The concept of "PC" (aka 'Political
Correctness') does not really exist in Russia teen in stocking a which fact IMHO makes the life
much easier and slightly reduces the amount of stupi teen in stocking idity that inevitably
presents in this life. Despite that, I definitely had to use t teen in stocking the 'softened'
terms in my translation in order not to outrage the people (not too muc teen in stocking ch at
least). But of course, something might have still leaked out. Please
con teen in stocking nsider yourselves warned.
3). FIDO
Some more confusion can be caused by Lukj teen in stocking janenko's technical details and
descriptions of the Net due to one more fact: he writ teen in stocking tes from the point of
view of the person who was once the FIDOnet member. Also it teen in stocking t seems that
Sergey himself was mostly affiliated with FIDO at the time of this book's
writing. The principles of FIDO's system organization differ from the ones
of the Internet. I never was FIDO member, so I know very little. In general,
it's free, amateurs' network that allows its members to exchange emails and
files. FIDO uses its own proprietary protocol. Special gateways are used to
exchange emails with the Internet. Look at www.fidonet.org for more
details... But be prepared to get back not the homepage, but some HTML code.
{G} The guys have forgot to put the {HTML} tag into the code of their main
page... OOPS.
4). The names.
The same name in Russian usually can have several forms, reflecting the
attitude of the one who pronounces the name to the one named. The number of
these forms is as far as I can judge, much bigger than in English. That's
why in my translation I preferred to retain the original rules of forming
such names and to provide this note. Another important reason is that the
Russian name changed according to the rules teen stocking of doing so in English would
sound ridiculous (maybe for me only, as I'm Russian... ;-) ), not mentioning
that it's not always possible to do this with Russian names at all. Example:
John - Johnny. Now try to do the same with, say, my name: Yuri. Yup... My
point exactly. Below is the example of how the first name of the main
character can be 'bent'. The same often happens to other names in the book.
For inexperienced reader it might be confusing, so I apologize... Russia
*is* confusing by definition, so bear with it. :-)
Leonid - the complete name.
Lenia (should be read roughly as Lyo-nee-aa; don't pronounce 'double
lettered' sounds as too long ones though) - this is slightly diminutive,
friendly form used by relatives and friends.
Lenechka (Lyo-nee-chka) - a "pet-name" form, sometimes also used with
sarcasm, depending on the context.
Lenchik - "pet-name"/unceremonious address.
Len'ka ( here ' means softening of the previous sound, 'n' in this name
sounds like 'n' in the word 'change') - Unceremonious address, a bit
slighting. Often used by close friends without any offensive context.
... and so on. No more forms are used in the book, so I'd better not
confuse you any more.
Another trick is how the names are formed n general. In particular, the
concept of the middle name in Russia. It is not 'given', but rather is the
father's name. To be used as a middle name, special endings are attached:
-ovich, -evich for man's middle name (yeah, they are gender specific!),
-ovna, evna for female's middle name.
Examples: Petrovich Alekseevich - men's
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