[B-Greek] Kató Lomb: Polyglot How I learn Languages
Daniel Buck
bucksburg at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 7 17:08:38 EDT 2009
Louis Sorenson llsorenson at hotmail.com wrote:
<<Kató Lomb, one of first simultaneous interpreters of the world, spoke more than ten languages fluently and she learnt them by gleaning their rules and vocabulary from books (mostly novels), as she described in her book Polyglot: How I Learn Languages (2008), originally published in Hungarian in four editions (1970, 1972, 1990, 1995).>>
It's interesting that she wrote it her native language and never translated the book herself! The translation team did a good job translating the often self-referential Hungarian to fairly idiomatic English. One gaffe stuck out to me, however, and that was the reference to "red Pentecost." I'm sure that should be "Red Pentecost," but I'm not sure at all where the "red" comes from. Is there a corresponding Koine expression used in Byzantine literature?
Daniel Buck
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