You know, I totally forgot this till now. There was a nice anime (Japanese animation) with some psychic kids in giant robots that combined. The translation used for the cartoon had a single interesting fact. Rather than psychic, they used the work side kick. This is because there wasn't a Japanese word for psychic and they used a different one. When it was translated, the translators had no idea how to use the word so they sounded it out and made it as close as possible. Side kick sword! sidekick wave!
I've seen words taken from the Torah that are similarly hard to translate for one reason or another. My favorite is Kishuf, which has a loose translation of magic but who's translation into English would take about 4 sentences (enchantment is a slightly closer English word, but...). This is the word that was translated in the Christian Bible as poisoner, witch and more. This was interesting reasoning. Greek didn't have a word that matched the Hebrew so when they translated the Torah to Greek, they used what was closest which is basically brewer of poisons/potions. Translated to Latin it became poisoner, translated to middle English went back to the Hebrew (or close) and became witch (a sign of the times) and translated to English became both. Pagans love to be authoritative and say that its poisoner all the time. The point is, unless someone is learned in Hebrew they're probably going to get it wrong. Unless someone reads the commentary from hundreds and thousands of years ago, they're not going to know the context. > I bet you could take a math text book and take some quotes out of context > and do the same thing! > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 11:41 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Warning: This may offend if religious > > > > > > Maybe he should do so in the original language rather than an > > translation of a translation of a translation. While I can't > > comment on anything past the Torah, I can say that he's got a > > lot of problems. For a basic example, he says that the plague > > killed all the horses and then they were alive again. He uses > > this as his main (almost only) criticism of the Exodus. Now > > if you look at the Hebrew, you see a totally different story. > > The passages he cited says: "Behold the hand of God is on > > your livestock in the field. On the horses, on the donkeys, > > on the camels, on the cattle and on the flock, a very severe > > epidemic.". This does not say ALL were killed. Just that it > > was severe. I expect that every (or most every) quote he > > takes from the Torah will show the same mistakes. I don't > > really expect anything different from people of this sort. > > They'd rather be angry and sarcastic than accurate. > > > > > > > http://justdrew.net/Biblical/ > > > > > > This guy basically goes through the bible pointing out > > inconsistancies > > > > > > Some are pretty funny/strange, but damn interesting none the less > > > > > > Oh, and the links he points out goto a site that only has the New > > > Testament, not the Old, so quite a few don't work > > > > > > Philip Arnold > > > Technical Director > > > Certified ColdFusion Developer > > > ASP Multimedia Limited > > > Switchboard: +44 (0)20 8680 8099 > > > Fax: +44 (0)20 8686 7911 > > > > > > www.aspmedia.co.uk > > > www.aspevents.net > > > > > > An ISO9001 registered company. > > > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > > > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to > > whom they > > > are addressed. If you have received this email in error > > please notify > > > the system manager. > > > > > ********************************************************************** > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
