FURIOUSLY HAPPY – The Bloggess

Now I want to write a book about ravines.

So I just got the Hungarian copy of Furiously Happy and of course I had to run it through google translate to interpret it, and as usual, google translate did not disappoint. Or rather in continued to disappoint, but in a very entertaining way. Here’s the actual cover: But what happens if we translate it?Continue reading “Now I want to write a book about ravines.”

Lost in translation?

Just saw that there’s now a Vietnamese edition of Furiously Happy, which is amazing and surreal. I always do a google translation on the covers, but this translation is probably one of my favorites: Cover translation? Of course, that’s just what my computer auto-translated it to and it’s probably wrong so I decided to useContinue reading “Lost in translation?”

YOU NEED TO READ THIS.

So. The vet at A&M called with Dottie’s test results. You’ll want to read this. Her CT scan showed that weird thickening of the bladder but nothing that looked like a mass or lesion and there was no sign of cancer in her bones or lymph nodes other doggie pieces. The cystoscopy showed a bladderContinue reading “YOU NEED TO READ THIS.”

Honestly I might be better mistranslated.

Furiously Happy continues to find an audience in China and that means that I get tagged in a lot of weird things that possible don’t translate well. Mostly they’re reviews but when I use google translate it’s wonderfully entertaining: Makes you wish she was your super super good friend. – Entertainment Weekly She will letContinue reading “Honestly I might be better mistranslated.”

Dead Happy World’s Brightest Leopard Depression Sufferer

Yesterday I shared the bizarre news that Furiously Happy is a bestseller in China and then I asked if anyone could translate the billboards and posters advertising Furiously Happy and it was glorious. PS. It feels only fair that the English part of the Chinese poster has a typo. Now I want this poster. ItContinue reading “Dead Happy World’s Brightest Leopard Depression Sufferer”

What did I even write?

Apparently Furiously Happy is in Turkish now because I just got a copy of a Turkish psychology article about it, but I don’t read Turkish so I put part of it into Google translate and it gave me this: I’m not sure if this is an insult or just a poorly translated way of sayingContinue reading “What did I even write?”