Re: Hell hath no Fury (was: war and death are in my hand)

I see what you are saying. I have a tendency to change and
adapt texts to fit my conculture when doing little
translations like this. I tried to be pretty faithful to the
meaning and cultural context of the Babel Text, but that was
fairly unusual for me. I am not above taking scissors and
thread and turning a prom dress into a pants suit, if you
know what I mean.

"Wade, Guy" wrote:
>
> But Raymond has a good point.  Whoever translated "Hell" may have lost the
> original meaning that made sense to the writer & his audience, unless the
> writer used an idiom that meant 'fiery place of torment.'  When I cast it in
> my own conlang, I made that cultural mistake: instead of Hell I used
> Grave/place of the dead (ile mordai) which would be a no-no if it changed
> the original meaning of the words, IMHO.
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