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Re: More Sheli Poetry Translations

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 18:46
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From: "Jeffrey Henning" <jeffrey@...>

> >Hi, David. Forgive my lack of attention, here, but what exactly is the >>premise? Are we to translate your Sheli poem (that is a translation from >>the Chinese) into English or into our languages? > > Yes, except David wrote the original poem. He was inspired to this > exercise > by a book about a Chinese poem translated many times.
Yes what? English or conlang? Or does it matter?
>>The idea then is to translate the Sheli. But having seen >>the translations, I'm now "corrupted." :) > > Glad to know you weren't corrupted before that!
Oh, there are corruptions and there are corruptions! ;) Sally