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Was thinking the same thing, that is the character 'Aunt Hillary', which is an ant hill. In the Dutch translation (which I read years ago) she's called 'Myra Ho
by ragebol 7y ago
Was thinking the same thing, that is the character 'Aunt Hillary', which is an ant hill. In the Dutch translation (which I read years ago) she's called 'Myra Hoop'.
Funny how those translation still make sense, same as in the Harry Potter universe where the names even have to be anagrams.
- tgvaughan 7y agoIt's not an accident: Hofstadter and the translators put a lot of work into preserving the wordplay across translations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach#Translation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach#Tra...