Malwene a écrit:
By the way, I thought deers and does and such animals bugled? Do you know of any place where I could learn more about animal sounds?
And when talking about the rivers, is my suggestion of "shores" wrong? Maybe it only applies to the sea shore?
I am always happy to have a native person to ask my stupid questions to... do let me know if I am asking too much ^^
Never asking too much, I am happy to help out!
It is much easier to create a poetic translation into my native language than from it... probably best if the final draft of a translation into English is with assistance of a person who is very fluent in English, and the final draft of a translation into French is by an expert Francophone.
The sounds that deer make - I must admit it is completely unknown to me before this translation effort. Where I live, we have white-tailed deer (cerf de Virginie) who don't make much sound, at least not that I have heard - I see them often.
We do not have fallow deer (daim) or roe deer (chevreuil) so I have no idea what sounds they make... nor did I even know till this translation work that there were so many different kinds of deer! Each seems to make different sounds.
Maybe the person who helped me with the translation of "brama" saw this page: Recording of a male fallow deer bellowing in Haldon Forest. This is the only place I saw it called that; other words to describe their sounds are: calling, grunting, groaning, snorting, and most specifically, burling. I've never heard of the word "burling" in my life, but here is a video: Vocal fallow deer.
As for "shore"... you can use "shore" with reference to a river, but it's uncommon and, with the mention of a sea so nearby, it would be misleading. See this discussion for more information: Stack Exchange River Shore question
