> 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". While not directly related to language, it
> discusses the nature of how humans perceive the world around them,
> and so could be seen as touching on psycholinguistics. It's kinda long,
> so it might be a little challenging, both from a sociocultural view and from
> just the sheer amount of translation required. But who knows? We
> might learn a lot about what our concultures/languages.
>
> Here's a good link:
> <
http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/the_republic/restatem.htm#book7>
>
> (It's a dialogue, between Socrates [the "I" of the passage], and Glaukon
> [here called "Grey"], his interlocutor.)
>
>