William L. Eisenhart

Re-versed ????

Revisado: 05-28-20

While the story is wonderfully compelling and well told, my wife did not enjoy the reader’s voice which, however, did not bother me. But I was totally irritated, even incensed, by the reader’s repeated use of the word “versed” to mean ‘to leave, or to depart or to emerge or to cross, as in walking”-perhaps indicting the translator, who seems to be on a campaign to introduce English language users to the translator’s preferred use of the word “verse”-though I could not find that application in any on-line source (dictionaries) I checked. If Audible decides to use a translation with obscure (my polite term) applications of otherwise common words, then you should WARN your readers of that fact before we buy the book. I would not knowingly have bought a translation which made such a broad and truly odd use of the common English word “verse”.

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