{"id":279196,"date":"2010-07-29T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/07\/29\/ice-cold-crime-cliches-and-bad-puns\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:31:55","slug":"ice-cold-crime-cliches-and-bad-puns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/07\/29\/ice-cold-crime-cliches-and-bad-puns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cold Crime, Cliches, and Bad Puns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I’m not a big reader of Nordic crime, it’s nice to know that places like Ice Cold Crime<\/a> are out there, translating and publishing these titles, which probably appeal to a pretty wide audience. And Ice Cold Crime’s story — featured in this article<\/a> — is kind of touching: <\/p>\n

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Riding the wave of recent popular Nordic crime novels — beginning, but not ending, with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo<\/em> — [Jouko] Sipila, 39, has begun publishing English translations of crime novels written by his brother, Jarkko, a journalist in Helsinki. This fall, Sipila’s publishing company, Ice Cold Crime, will begin publishing a second Finnish mystery writer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Good for them. I’ll definitely be adding these to the translation database,<\/a> and wish them the best of luck. And those of you interested in Finnish crime might want to check these books out. <\/p>\n

But the main reason I wanted to post about this was to point out some of the stereotypes, cliches, and bad puns in the piece. OK, poking fun at local papers is a fish, barrel, smoking gun situation, but what the hell, this is the Star Tribune<\/em>, a mid-sized market\/paper, thus totally open to mockery . . . <\/p>\n

Even before the “riding the wave” cliche quoted above, there’s this awesomely odd lede: “There might be a pipeline of pro hockey players from Finland to the United States, but mystery writers?” <\/p>\n

OK, so the Finnish are known for their ice hockey skills, and what else? Oh, maybe death metal. Which is what this photo seems to be invoking.<\/p>\n

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My favorite bad joke from this article is translator Peter Ylitalo Leppa’s comment that the humor in Jarkko Sipila’s novel is “served cold.” Ice<\/em> Cold perhaps? <\/p>\n

What a groaning way to start the day . . . <\/p>\n

Though I do want to give props to Chris Steller for referencing the Finnish Literature Exchange for subsidizing the translation. FILI<\/span><\/a> rocks! In a non-death metal sense of the word.<\/p>\n

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