Translation - wonderful feat

TVB earns a brownie point for screening Much Ado About Nothing, on Pearl, on February 13.

This riotous celebration of life and love is a credit to the art of film-making and a fitting interpretation of a piece of English literature. However, I would like to give special credit to the person who translated the dialogue into Chinese.

She (?) not only did a linguistically correct translation, but also captured the spirit of Shakespeare's English, a wonderful feat rarely seen on Hong Kong television.

So why cannot TVB produce the same standard of translation in all its English programmes? Next, how about Mel Gibson's Hamlet.

RICHARD WONG The Peak