Then we came to the final choosing phase. “Hebrew or English?” asked my friend.
I thought. I remembered a few translators I know, who make their bread sparely and work at lousy conditions, I thought about the effort involved in translation and the talent needed, about the status of publishers in the country, about the importance of the language to the Hebrew Culture and to culture at all.
“English,” I said. There’s a limit.
— Nir Yaniv, Going to buy Harry Potter
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