[rciorba]

I read the first Dune books in Romanian, then re-read the first one in English, and I was amazed at how nice the translation was. I actually prefer it to the original. For example, stillsuit sounds really basic, but distrai, a portmanteau of "a distila" (to distil) and "strai" (old word for clothes) lands differently for me.

[buggy6257]

Now I’m wondering if “still” is meant to be short for “distill”…

[semiquaver]

Of course it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still