Keyshot 59/26/2023 Surely for the creatures (we among them) who find meaning, mostly intuitively emotional in nature, in rhythm and rhyme the Oath would be taken in that fashion (as is most reasonable for that creature to do so).įor, as I believe another researcher's reply speculated, a creature which communicates via the sending and bending of light perhaps there is not such thing as rhyme. I believe it comes down to aesthetic, beauty, and how beings assign meaning (whether culturally determined (or cultivated) or otherwise) to events and intentions. In the lanterns' case you'd just have to live with the fact that you had a slightly fuzzy version of what any other said. How well does this apply to languages that you simply don't understand? Pick the translation YOU like best and attribute it to the the writer and translator. The translators personal twist is based on their own experience and knowledge at the very least changing the artistry and at worst mistranslating based on a false assumption no longer the same work but another. Poets, on the other hand, very carefully chose their words to be perfect for the job. When it comes to ordinary speech the translators personal flair is nessecary for the conversation to fully make sense, a direct translation with out of order sentences and cultural references would be pretty useless. In the case of Goethe you'd be told that the translator chose those words and it's best to the poems read as written, if you can understand the language well enough. What If Fiction ( This is the best place for "general" questions)įor non-serious answers for real world science problems try:Īnd just for fun, don't forget to check out our friends at Who would win ( Go here for questions about who would win in a fight or competition between two or more characters) This subreddit is for discussion of fiction using information about the universe and not meta information about the work.
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