25 Nov
2001
25 Nov
'01
1:42 p.m.
Kai wrote:
Again we can say that what we are hearing is actually a translation in itself, and the language that the characters really speak is not English at all or is an eight hundred years older variant of English that bears as little resemblance to Modern English as Modern English does to the language of Beowulf.
I think I'm most comfortable with that idea.
--
Harriet
"There is something in the quality of a good translation
that can never be captured in the original." - William Gibson