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Yes, and it is a key characteristic of a skillful translator that such features are kept in the translation. This translation is very nice, but notice for exam
by triska 7y ago
Yes, and it is a key characteristic of a skillful translator that such features are kept in the translation.
This translation is very nice, but notice for example that the word "long" is itself now no longer long in the translation ("longumque" is longer, both syntactically and also when spoken, and that is made possible in Latin by the suffix "-que" that can be attached to words to mean "and").
Also, many passages cannot be translated so nicely, for example because the translation would become too long to fit the metre, or because too erratic the word order would in English become.
- pdonis 7y ago> too erratic the word order would in English become But perhaps helped with that Yoda has. :-)
- hcarvalhoalves 7y agoI just tried a quick translation now looking up the latin dictionary. My native tongue is Portuguese so maybe I'm more used to uncommonly ordered sentences. My English vocabulary is limited, I had to lookup a better synonym for "long": Daedalus, meanwhile, on Crete's lingering detested exile, longing for his birthplace
- josinalvo 7y agolingering brings other ideas besides "long". something like "fading but still there". does not seem appropriate for the text
- hcarvalhoalves 7y agoDoesn't "lingering" have a connotation of "lasting longer than it should" when associated with a negative aspect? E.g. "lingering pain", "lingering stench".
- josinalvo 7y agoAlso lingering affection. Afaik, it means mostly something like "still there, after all that time" see: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lingering https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lingering
- Koshkin 7y agoHow's Portuguese any different in that regard from other Romance languages like Spanish or French?
- umanwizard 7y agoI’m not familiar with Portuguese, but for what it’s worth, Spanish has much freer word order than French. Random example: “I can’t do it” in Spanish can either be no lo puedo hacer or no puedo hacerlo. In colloquial French, j’peux pas l’faire is the only option (or, if you prefer the more standard/formal register: je ne peux pas le faire). This despite “le” and “lo” being direct cognates.