Re: CHAT: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Irina Rempt wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Sally Caves wrote:
>
>> How many of you conlangers are going to do this, really?
>
>I'm not; it's too twentieth-century political, too culture-bound, and
>I don't want to take the risk of it changing Valydan beyond
>recognition and repair. Same as I don't translate from the Bible on
>principle (well, I did "let there be light" but the explanation was
>easily ten times as long as the phrase).
I agree here. There's no cultural or political basis for it to make
any sense in Talarian. What would "human rights" mean when you're one
out of a number of races? It might make better sense in Brithenig, but
I don't think lla Bethisad has a UN. Or does it? Certainly not a UN
like we have *here*.

Padraic.

>   Irina