* [COFF] Translating Schopenhauer (was: Style command source available?) [not found] ` <20200821152311.kvK7n%steffen@sdaoden.eu> @ 2020-08-22 1:49 ` grog 2020-08-22 2:01 ` dave 2020-08-22 19:10 ` steffen 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: grog @ 2020-08-22 1:49 UTC (permalink / raw) On Friday, 21 August 2020 at 17:23:11 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > > It was Schopenhauer who definetely said > > Neminem laede, imo omnes, quantum potes, juva! How about that, I even understood that. But for the fun of it I put it through Google Translate, and the result is worth showing: Truth injures no one, nay more, all, as much as you are able to: strengthen the faint! Of course, if you drop the !, it changes to: Truth injures no one, nay more, all, as much as you can, help the How I love syntax-independent translation! Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 163 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/attachments/20200822/154c0f54/attachment.sig> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* [COFF] Translating Schopenhauer (was: Style command source available?) 2020-08-22 1:49 ` [COFF] Translating Schopenhauer (was: Style command source available?) grog @ 2020-08-22 2:01 ` dave 2020-08-22 19:10 ` steffen 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: dave @ 2020-08-22 2:01 UTC (permalink / raw) On Sat, 22 Aug 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [...] > How I love syntax-independent translation! You do know how Google "Translate" works, don't you? Hint: it's not a translation as such. -- Dave ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* [COFF] Translating Schopenhauer (was: Style command source available?) 2020-08-22 1:49 ` [COFF] Translating Schopenhauer (was: Style command source available?) grog 2020-08-22 2:01 ` dave @ 2020-08-22 19:10 ` steffen 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: steffen @ 2020-08-22 19:10 UTC (permalink / raw) Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote in <20200822014909.GB61564 at eureka.lemis.com>: |On Friday, 21 August 2020 at 17:23:11 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> |> It was Schopenhauer who definetely said |> |> Neminem laede, imo omnes, quantum potes, juva! | |How about that, I even understood that. But for the fun of it I put |it through Google Translate, and the result is worth showing: | | Truth injures no one, nay more, all, as much as you are able to: | strengthen the faint! | |Of course, if you drop the !, it changes to: | | Truth injures no one, nay more, all, as much as you can, help the | |How I love syntax-independent translation! To the best of my knowledge he meant Harm noone, instead [to the contrary], help [give] everyone [a hand] as much as you can. I attune Tolstoy's enthusiasm for Schopenhauer, but had to study it much better for my own benefit. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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