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Re: Translation project: Plato's Cave Allegory

From:Irina Rempt <ira@...>
Date:Saturday, April 3, 1999, 16:18
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Tom Wier wrote:

> Hey, all! I've thought of what might be a fun new translation project > for the list: the passage in Plato's dialogue, the Republic, called "The > Allegory of the Cave".
I think I'll pass on this one; it's even worse than the Bible when it comes to laying an alien culture on the culture-behind-the-language. Anyway, I need the time for working on my grammar :-) Irina Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastinay. irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/frontpage.html (English) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/backpage.html (Nederlands)