tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 27 06:21:31 1996
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Re: "grape" in the Gospel of Mark was: Word borrowing in Kl
- From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: "grape" in the Gospel of Mark was: Word borrowing in Kl
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 96 08:09:59 EST
"Dr. Maciej St. Zieba" wrote:
>Because Jesus's remarks here depended on the wine being kept in skins, which
>can be burst by pressure of fermentation gas inside if the wine is new and
>still fermenting, and not in containers strong enough to stand any internal
>pressure. Likely a Klingon translation intended for Klingons would need a
>footnote here explaining this.
~mark writes:
>Aha, a good answer. jIyajchoH. And yes, I agree about the footnote.
Seems to me such a footnote would have been useful for some Terrans
as well! :-) *I* certainly didn't have a clue about the intended
analogy here. Goes to show that even if you translate the meaning
behind the words perfectly, there might still be missing background
information that keeps the translation from working as well as it
could. Hidden assumptions are *dangerous*!
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