http://www.tomisimo.org/blog/2009/translating/translating-a-book-could-cost-you-your-life/ All about learning Spanish and English and the Tomísimo bilingual dictionary Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:12:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.tomisimo.org/blog/2009/translating/translating-a-book-could-cost-you-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-49889 poli Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:33:06 +0000 http://www.tomisimo.org/?p=528#comment-49889 It's frightening and absurd that religion can be so rigid and cruel, but on a liguistic level it's frightening but not absurd. Translations skew meanings, but sometimes, I think, the skewing of a meaning is enriching. It's very sad that people should not be permitted to translate anything. The Moslems of yore translated Plato and Aristotle preserving western culture while the occidental world fell into the dark ages. Now, look who's in the dark ages. The tables have clearly turned. It’s frightening and absurd that religion can be so rigid and cruel, but on a liguistic level it’s frightening but not absurd.
Translations skew meanings, but sometimes, I think, the skewing of a meaning is enriching. It’s very sad that people should not be permitted to translate anything. The Moslems of yore translated Plato and Aristotle preserving western culture while the occidental world fell into the dark ages. Now, look who’s in the dark ages. The tables have clearly turned.

]]> http://www.tomisimo.org/blog/2009/translating/translating-a-book-could-cost-you-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-49675 Ian Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:54:04 +0000 http://www.tomisimo.org/?p=528#comment-49675 Thats truly sad! Thats truly sad!

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