Re: When Purl Gurl is right [was: Re: Fortran won yesterday [was: Re: Why "Sparky"]]

I would ask him if i can post the rest, but the author is currently not in
Pest, but in Manilla on vacation, i think

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there is an 'otherness' to structure when non-native speakers compose in
english which is often expunged or lost when translated, that is, the
otherness is not transmitted - presumably to avoid an /association with
foreigness/?

what do you think?

some of these folks seem to have achieved what native wirters have not,
examples are perhaps conrad for prose and rimbaud for prose poems

i also note that in translating haiku from oriental sources, something seems
to be lost over when the writer composes in the presented language - even if
the translation is made by highly accomplished poets who are sympathetic to
the original sense and language

there are some exceptions in english - often when another english 'culture'
is the theme - as with hughes and animism for example [come Cynewulf!], so
that nothing is lost of the aboriginal child walking under the sun

cordially, phil

> Still, it was love, clean, human
> Caressing each other a man, a woman
> I fear I fail to give my very best
> For Your kindness and all; dear humble thanks
>
> Cordially, Phil
>

How sweet!

-- Nate


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