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Translating Lewis Carrol s Jabberwocky requires a great deal of imagination, as the translator must come up with words in the target language that have a similar effect to the made-up words in the English original.

Feb 14, 2023•1 min read

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Translating Lewis Carrol’s “Jabberwocky” requires a great deal of imagination, as the translator must come up with words in the target language that have a similar effect to the made-up words in the English original.

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