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Re: Philosophical translation

bob mcfaddin ([email protected])




--- Alan Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:


> How's this?
> 
> *** *** ***
> 
> qatlh qo' wIghov? qatlh mabech? qatlh maHaj, qatlh
> maghal? qatlh  
> mayIn neH, ta'meymaj wIghovbe'taHvIS? DuHvam
> wImaSlaH? qItbe'law'.
> 
  
> nobqoq 'Igh neH 'oH ghovlaHghachmaj'e' 'e' maq
> SoQvam ngaj.
> 
> *** *** ***
> Literal back-translation into English:
> 
> Why do we recognize the world? Why do we suffer? Why
> do we dread, why  
> are we jealous? 

> So today's  
> situation is accepted.
> 
> Why do we recognize the world? We can answer, and it
> seems  
> sufficient, but it does not stop us from
> interrogating. This short  
> speech proclaims that our ability to recognize is
> merely a cursed so- 
> called gift.
> 
> -- ghunchu'wI'
> 
Ummmmmm.... k'wow.

juDmoS

jajvam lururbogh jajmey'e' lutu'lu' muja'ta' SoSoywI'

juDmoS

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