Re: The Lord's Prayer, a translation exercise

 --- Nik Taylor wrote:

> Mine, for example, has no word for "father", except for the rather
> technical term _nlannani_ which is literally something like
> "co-mother".  They'd probably translate it as "Our mother in the divine
> abode ..."  No word for "kingdom" either, but there is a general word
> that can mean "state, empire, nation, kingdom, etc.", basically any
> independent political unit.  They might use that, but it would probably
> sound strange.  There wouldn't be much problem otherwise in translating
> it, but the whole prayer would certainly strike them as odd.  It's not
> up to the Divinities to forgive or condemn, or to provide for your
> everyday needs.  They'll provide the rain and sun and so forth, but you
> have to do the work of raising the crops yourself.  :-)  Of course, much
> of Christianity would strike them as odd, so that's not so much a
> problem.
Then I would be really curious about the English translation of the Uatakassi
text I found at http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-watakassi.html.

Jan

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