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Nie fiel mir Sayuris Kyoto-Dialekt – in dem Geisha geiko heißt und Kimono mitunter obebe – stärker auf, als wenn ich mir den Kopf zerbrach, wie ich die feinen Nuancen in eine andere Sprache hinüberretten könnte.
I was never more aware of Sayuri’s Kyoto dialect—in which geisha themselves are called geiko, and kimono are sometimes known as obebe—than when I began to wonder how I would render its nuances in translation.
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