Quotes About Translation

heaven is not forever in the way that we think of forever, as a uniform measurement of time, like days and years, marching endlessly into the future. That's not a category or concept we find in the Bible. This is why a lot of translators choose to translate aion as "eternal." By this they don't mean the literal passing of time; they mean transcending time, belonging to another realm altogether.

The actual word "hell" is used roughly twelve times in the New Testament, almost exclusively by Jesus himself. The Greek word that gets translated as "hell" in English is the word "Gehenna." Ge means "valley," and henna means "Hinnom." Gehenna, the Valley of Hinnom, was an actual valley on the south and west side of the city of Jerusalem. Gehenna, in Jesus's day, was the city dump.

Smith used English as one might use a code book, with tedious and imperfect translation for each symbol.

But don't worry; almost no one in this ship speaks System English and she isn't one of the few. They talk their 'secret language' -- only it isn't secret; it's just Finnish.

I don't think Hawk or I are operating on emotional whim. It's just the way we experience things sometimes needs to get translated sort of promptly into a, ah, course of action. So we have tended to bypass the meditative circuit." "Wow," Hawk said.

If Joseph and Mary were taken into a private home and at birth Jesus was placed in a manger in that home, how is the word inn in Luke 2:7 to be understood? Most English translations state that after the child was born, he was laid in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn. This sounds as if they were rejected by the people of Bethlehem. Was that really the case?

She looked at Connor. "How old are you?" His jaw shifted. "I doona discuss my private life." "I can translate that for you," Phineas offered. "It means he's embarrassed he was a caveman and ate brontosaurus burgers for lunch." Connor arched an eyebrow at him. "The correct translation is 'sod off.'

Harry Yutu. His last name is Eskimo for 'The Claw.

Went to the whiteboard and tried to show her how AI could help. Always awkward to explain things to computer illiterates, a translation problem, a matter of deploying metaphors and finding gross generalizations that aren't too gross. Started

They went outside and stood where a sign used to say Taxi and now said Taxi/Tacsi for the benefit of Welsh people who had never seen a letter X before.

Yucatan - that word means: I do not understand you. (page 390 Lacune)

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it most certainly not beautiful

if you happen to live in a country whose leader routinely says things like "Their sacrifice will redeem the purity of our eternal nation," know that you are in deep trouble. To preserve your sanity, always try to translate such hogwash into real terms: a soldier crying out in agony, a woman beaten and brutalized, a child shaking in fear.

This was easiest, since Old Persian was not that different from modern Persian, which Rawlinson knew well. An understanding of the Old Persian section gave him the key he needed to unlock the secrets of the Elamite and Babylonian sections. The great door swung open, and out came a rush of ancient but lively voices – the bustle of Sumerian bazaars, the proclamations of Assyrian kings, the arguments of Babylonian bureaucrats.

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The Greeks Had a Word for It.

The expression 'I miss you' in English becomes 'Vous me manquez' in French, which literally means 'You're missing from me'. In my view, it's a wonderful way to express the emptiness in your self when you truly miss someone.

In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.