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Maarten said:
One Power - Единая Сила (the United Power)
taint - порча (corruption)
Blight - Запустение (Desolation)
to channel - направлять (to direct)
Pattern - Узор (Pattern, like on fabric)
Waygate - Путевые Врата (Way Gates)
Wheel of Time - Колесо Времени (wheel like your car's and time as your watch measure).

To which I say:
As the Aiel are fond of saying, it comes close but misses it. Most of the definitions are great. It's just two I have trouble with.

The One Power: more like the Sole or Only Power. (Although how that correlates to the True Power is a bit beyond me at the moment.)

Wheel of Time: it's more akin to a waterwheel than a car's tire, for instance. A steering wheel, for instance, would be more like someone who can channel the One Power or a ter'angreal (which does its thing when someone triggers its function) or an
angreal (which magnifies what the one who holds it can do), rather than a sa'angreal (which has to be told what to do by the user).

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On Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, Maarten D. de Jong wrote:

When discussing the Wheel of Time with a few friends, I discovered it is really quite difficult to translate a few keywords into my native language--- Dutch. I've read a Dutch translation of the WoT-books, but the translations seem needlessly theatrical. I wondered if people speaking other germanistic languages have the same trouble with:

One Power
taint
Blight
to channel
Pattern
Waygate
Wheel of Time (especially 'wheel'!)

Maarten

I am the one who knocks

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What are you knocking?

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