[B-Greek] Seeking.....

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 10 05:21:43 EDT 2008


This demonstrates the necessity of knowing preferably BOTH the source and the target languages when translating.  If there is any deficiency, it should be on the source side rather than the target side.  The language into which one is translating must be thoroughly understood.
 
george
gfsomsel

… search for truth, hear truth, 
learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth, 
defend the truth till death.


 - Jan Hus
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----- Original Message ----
From: Iver Larsen <iver_larsen at sil.org>
To: blist greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 1:49:41 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Seeking.....

A famous first attempt to translate Psalm 23 from the King James Bible into a local language in 
Canada was disastrous, because the translator was not a native speaker of English and had no 
knowledge of sheep or shepherds. The translation came out as: The Lord is my wild-goat-hunter, I 
don't want him. He knocks me down in the grass and drags me down to the water.

Iver Larsen







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