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Re: Some commandments in Kash (was: 10 commandments)

From:Rachel Klippenstein <estel_telcontar@...>
Date:Friday, March 21, 2003, 21:55
 --- John Cowan <jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM
> wrote: > A bit of semantic explication on some of the > commandments:
I'm the one who came up with the English versions. I know they're a bit misleading, but that's partly because they were more back-translations of my Ikanirae Seru versions than attempts to be accurate. You see, the versions I gave should be seen as the translations of a few 12-year-olds, the creators/speakers of Ikanirae Seru, working on a translation from the English NIV version, with supplementary help rom the King James version. They don't know Hebrew yet, so don't know where the English is misleading. Also, I don't think Ikanirae Seru has separate words to distinguish between "kill" and "murder", or for "Covet" and "envy". (> Roger Mills scripsit:)
> > 5. "Honour your father and mother." > > )Bçuraka inde-amayeti yuno pakrakaveleti > > Give respect mother-father-dat.-your (and) all > your ancestors > > "Honor" here really means "support". > > > 6. "Do not kill" > > Yanda pakran ka )Bçin liya > > Do not kill-violently person-acc. other > > The correct semantics of this one is "Do not commit > murder". Had the > prohibition been on killing rather than murdering, > the King James translators > would have written "Do not slay." It does include > non-violent murder such as > murder by poison (seemingly the original sense of > "murder"). > > > 9. "Do not bear false witness against your > neighbour" > > Yanda hengut ...or: yanda kota trakundri )Bç > > Do not lie ...or: do not speak untruths > > This is not a prohibition on all lies, but > specifically on perjury: swearing > a false oath, whether publicly or privately. > > -- > John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan > www.reutershealth.com jcowan@reutershealth.com > All "isms" should be "wasms". --Abbie
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