Re: Is conlang a generator of conlangers? or a su

Sheets, Jeff wrote:

>   Now I've put all my
> previous languages on hold, and am focusing on Tit'xka, and will be
> until I get a full translation of Shakespeare's MacBeth completed.
Whoa, really? Wow.  That's gonna be a while, if I remember
correctly.  The problem I see with trying to translate great literature
is that unless you're very knowledgeable about the work, you will
often come up with translations which don't render the original
meaning of the work correctly, which is one of the reasons why
I tend to shy away from things like Shakespeare and the Bible.
(Shakespeare especially, since (a) it's poetry, and so translating
[unless you're REALLY good at translating] will ruin a lot of the
effect and (b) since English is my native language, I might be
deceived by the fact that he writes in a similar BUT not the same
language, with a great many words having changed meanings or
shades of meaning in the last 400 years, and so many of my translations
will have the problem of being nearly, but not quite, correct translations.
Or at least, there is the chance of it.)

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