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[flemmings]

A filk from the FFL contains the chorus

We're proud to be Canadian:
Politeness in the face of assholes could be thought a curse.
It's cool in many ways to be Canadian:
We may not be much better; it's just that we're less worse.

Which about nails it.

Comments

[i_am_zan]

Hmmm ... it looks like there are more books I need to look out for! ^_^ thank you for sharing ... I mean the Dr Siri books of course! Not the Holmes pastiche. ^_~

[petronia]

The second seems to me closer to the meaning of the poem as well. "Stop the carriage" is an exhortation in English whereas in Chinese it is clearly descriptive of what the narrator is doing, only in Chinese you don't need a subject.

I also prefer "where people have their homes" to "there are homes of men" as the intent is to, well, sound homely.

[flemmings]

Thank you. This gives me hope that erm certain monkey translators have fallen from trees.