Re: CHAT: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Padraic Brown

> 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?
If I had enought time and vocabulary...

> >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*.
Well, probably make a "human rights" where "human" translates not as "for
human beings" but "for scienting beings" and make the author be some Elv who
thruly belive all scienting beings have some basic rights... and then drop
one or another which is definitively too UNish, and add a few more
Talarianish.

I mean: when it says that all human beings are equal regardles of race, sex,
nationality, etc.  write: al scienting beings are equal regardles of race,
stroke, color, sex, nationaly, tribe, etc.

En Zërâ there is no UN either, but many _humanists_ have proposed a similar
declaration of human rights.  I'll go throw it and make the proper changes.

> Padraic.
>
> >   Irina
-- Carlos Th