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639: Ch'ang-Kan Village Song

Oct 12, 2009 10:30

"Ch'ang-Kan Village Song ( Read more... )

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the_jenny October 12 2009, 16:22:17 UTC

Wow! Thanks for the different translations! It's like looking at the same thing from different angles... which, now that I think about it, is a bit like poetry itself. :)

high_x_voltage October 12 2009, 17:31:14 UTC

for some reason, aside from the obvious stanza breaks, this one seems very different from the other translations.

I'm not saying I'd go far to meet you,
no further than Ch'ang-feng Sands.

those last lines have a certain tone that wasn't present in the other translations.

cougarfang October 12 2009, 21:31:37 UTC

相迎不道遠，直至長風沙 ( ... )

_nanimo October 13 2009, 00:32:33 UTC

I think I prefer this translation.

high_x_voltage October 13 2009, 01:37:39 UTC

i definitely prefer it, though i can't judge how accurate the translation is. just in and of itself, i like it.

_nanimo October 13 2009, 02:12:05 UTC

Same. The second version posted here seems a little too literal, and I just prefer this one to the first, although like you I don't know which is more "accurate."

As someone interested in languages, I like looking at how things are similarly translated, and what got interpreted differently. In a way seeing all of these kind of gives a fuller version of the original writer's intention -- or maybe possible intention.