{"id":152,"date":"2012-03-31T09:32:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T09:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gentlemantranslator.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2012-03-31T09:32:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T09:32:41","slug":"the-violet-day-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gentlemantranslator.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/31\/the-violet-day-22\/","title":{"rendered":"The Violet, Day 22"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Director.<\/span> This is why I appeal to you.<\/p>\n

Ilonka.<\/span> Of course this is why! Because of your job, because you are the sort of poor man who goes to work on foot.<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> I haven’t an iron fill\u00e9r<\/em> to my name. I can’t support my own self on my wages.<\/p>\n

Ilonka.<\/span> I will give you money, if I must.<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> Thank you, my dear, I have not come to that. Very well, let us say, let us say it is only natural that you should appeal to me …<\/p>\n

Ilonka.<\/span> Ah, happiness!<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> Pardon. We are only supposing.<\/p>\n

Ilonka.<\/span> I know, you dear, what it means when we are already supposing!<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> You’re very conceited, dear girl, but wait, you will yet become humbler.<\/p>\n

Ilonka.<\/span> I could not be humbler than when I chose you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A page today. The words seem to be sucking less, but I put off getting started so long that I really can’t keep going. Some really incomprehensible dialogue was made more comprehensible when I figured out Ilonka was ending words with “\u00e9r” which ought to have ended “\u00e9rt”. I hope I’ll get at least a few pages done tomorrow.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t an iron fill\u00e9r<\/em> to my name” was originally just “I don’t have an iron”, where “iron” is standing in for “thing made of iron” (and not “clothes iron”, which would be a different word altogether). It seems like a pretty safe assumption that he means an iron coin, and fill\u00e9r is plausible, but I really should check Wikipedia or some other source to find out what Hungarian or Austrian coins from 1920 or earlier were made of iron. I like the sound of “iron fill\u00e9r<\/em>, though, and I think this is a good example of when to throw in a Hungarian word for flavor. It should be obvious from context that a fill\u00e9r is a coin, and it’s a good reminder of where the story is set. I would absolutely not substitute “brass farthing”.<\/p>\n

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