Translating Humour

Kembali memahami catatan Peter Newmark mengenai Translation. Kali ini adalah penjelasan Newmark (1993: 18) tentang penerjemahan teks jenaka / teks humor. Lalu apa sih penjelasan beliau? Yuk kita lihat bersama-sama :

The essence of humor is incongruity of freshness. If you see a lot of men wearing top hats and white shirts in England, you might, or might not, laugh. But not in Israel. That is culture 'shock'. If you see a lot of people wearing red bulbs on their noses, you might laugh. That is a universal, but a sense of humour is individual as well as universal and/or cultural, and besides, what is humour? Something that makes you giggle or smile or chuckle or roar? If a text is humorous, it must be well written. I suspect that one day the translators will find P.G. Wodehouse, and he will be as popular as Lewis Carroll.

Singkat ya, namanya juga catatan.... tapi bisa dipahami, kan?

Referensi :

Newmark, Peter. 1993. Paragraphs on Translation. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

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