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21. "RE: AGA: Rebuilding After The Apocalypse"
In response to message #19
 
   >>and I'm sure I remember a German translation that had an
>>advert for instant soup inserted into the text...
>>(Yes, that was a Real Thing that Really Happened.)
>
>There is an image for you. While Ohlmarks translation was, in all
>honesty, shit and he really sholdn't have been allowed NEAR anything
>in another language, at least he didn't do THAT. Are you sure you're
>not thinking about 'Bored of the Rings', though? I know there is a
>'variation' of Minas Morgul in it, there known as 'Chikken Noodul'.

It was a long-standing problem; apparently the publisher had an advertising contract with a certain well-known (only in Germany) manufacturer of instant soup. I've come across a mention of at least one of the early Discworld books getting the same treatment — PTerry wasn't pleased either, and eventually changed his German publisher — and possibly some of the Pocket Star Trek novels as well.

I have the collection of JRRT's Letters, and I'm trying to find the one where he reacts to finding out what happened. IIRC he was wonderfully scathing; almost as good as the time (just pre-WW2) when a prospective German (again...?) translator of The Hobbit wanted to know if someone with a good German name could prove his good Aryan origins...

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