Translating translations (Was: Re: The Lord's Prayer, a translation exercise)
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 15, 2002, 19:14 |
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 06:57:31PM +0000, Ray Brown wrote:
> On Sunday, July 14, 2002, at 08:31 , Thomas R. Wier wrote:
[snip]
> >Perhaps it's best to look first at the original Greek text
> >from Matthew 6:9-13 again (omitting accent marks):
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> Yes indeed - translating a translation tends to increase inaccuracies -
> rather like the game "Chinese whispers".
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You mean, like the Conlang Translation Relays. :-) I mean... playing
children turning into magic eggs. 'Nuff said!
T
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