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Re: new relay

From:<bjm10@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 30, 2001, 17:29
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Padraic Brown wrote:

> Right. And there's no reason why a 100% correspondance > has to be made. The job of translator isn't to plug > words from Language A into words of Language B. It's > to take the ideas that are expressed in the words of > Langauge A and render them comprehensibly into ideas > expressed by words of Language B.
Then why do some people have such a prissy hissy fit over using Biblical passages? How are these any more tainted than some hunk of fiction?
> alien language. A treatise on how to capture a mate can > get tricky.
Or the nature of beauty in general, or of virtue, or of happiness.

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Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Aidan Grey <frterminus@...>