hey thok
yes you live in the future
here is only 11:08a.m.
It's time to walk with the dog.
ok
and good morning to you 2 d
well d i never know with you being an expert linguist...
it could have been in swahili knowing you
Hey, Col!
Thank you; I guess I could remember her 270 lines in Swahili if I worked very hard, but that's more about memory than linguistic skills! Yet I prefer to perform things in the language in which they were written, as without speaking Much Ado About Nothing in English means that many puns are lost. If some Swahili-speaking guy called Uilamu Chakkspiro wrote it, then I'd want it performed in Swahili too...
(Although, at the moment, I'm translating a book from French to English...)
ok
i understand that
i agree...
also reminds me of people saying if you translate the torah and the koran it loses its meaning..
i disagree with this
its true that songs translated into other languages suddenly dont rhyme anymore im sure the same is true of rhyming poems
Yes, most rhyming poems don't rhyme when they are translated... certain people debase the poems by not translating literally, making radical changes so that the poem rhymes. I don't do that when translating; I try to match the other language's nuance...
I had better go! I'll see you later!
Rick d'Israeli wrote:What I said was for real (poor fortune :wink: ). No, serious now: it went quite well. It was only my third lesson so far, so I'm not really a good driver (yet), but he (the instructor) allowed me to do a lot of stuff: steer, change gears, brake, accelerate...
Poor me? Why poor me? Has someone stolen my car or am I simply being spied upon. If it's the latter, well they're welcome to my bad hair day, just please don't say my car's gone!!
I sort of said I hit some Australian tourists. Because the instructor yelled at me to drive away (as in: GO, GO, GO, DRIVE!), the only thing I could see was something red. I thought it was your hair. Could as well have been blood.
Ah, the repercussions of my bad hair day are manifold. Don't worry, you mainly hit hair.
