Re: CHAT: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 15, 2000, 17:50 |
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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).
Irina
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