[isolli]

An interesting example, one of the best-known book openings in French literature ("Aujourd'hui, maman est morte."), and the difficulties translating the sentence in English: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lost-in-translat...

[ahartmetz]

Interesting article, and I believe I have a better translation: "Today, my mom died." It sounds better than just "mom" and seems to express the right level of closeness.

OTOH I think it's often appropriate to keep "mamma" in Italian movies and texts because it carries a huge amount of connotations, which "maman" doesn't.

[jprissi]

> Interesting article, and I believe I have a better translation: "Today, my mom died."

Well it's not an accurate translation, 'my' create a distance between the narrator and the mother that you don't have in the original sentence.

You traduction is much more objective than what the author wrote.

[yesenadam]

"Mom" is US English only I think.

[dingaling]

But then you have to translate for the majority of English-speaking countries that don't use 'mom'...

[labster]

"Mum"'s the word.

[taneq]

Or if you use "mother" it changes the tone to be more preppy.