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- What city, and country are you from originally?
- Sun River, MT
- What are you doing/plans here?
- gun slinger
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- I come haunts of coot and hern.
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Lost in Translation II
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 14:30 9 Comments 0 Favorites
Robert Frost said, “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” When something is translated, phrases tend to get rendered down, curtailed, simplified. Still, even in translation, some new voice is asserting its own flair, knuckling its own spin into a basic meaning.
One morning earlier this week, avoiding the lessons in my Chinese text book, I stumbled onto a daily affirmation site, and I tried to translate a bit into Chinese. I asked Mandy to check it over, and then I posted it and…
ContinueLost in Translation
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:53 7 Comments 0 Favorites
A little experiment: I translated a daily affirmation, with a little help, into Chinese. I hope some Chinese speakers will translate it back into English. Then I would like to post the original with the new translations. Please translate!
我有心耐，是好心人。周围的人也是好心的。不管什么事情发生了，心无杂念，所以我跟别人和睦相处。
Fin's book in Ferney's artwork.
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 11:42 13 Comments 1 Favorite
It's surreal; it's mysteriously mind-bending; its out on Amazon with Ferney's art work: Angels, Delirium Liberty. I REALLY need reviews! If you would like to do one, I'll give you one of the old copies for free.
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Hi Fin. How are you? How has your winter break been? What is your e-mail and phone number? I will have the magazines contact you. Jeff
Hey there. It'll be lovely to throw a dongbeish dinner party on CCF. if u have time, let me know, then i will set up an event. Or u can join my regular dinner parties with my Chinese friends, if u speak some Chinese.
Thanks for the gift!! Fin!
Happy Birthday... long time no see...
Fin - happy birthday tomorrow!
Also Fin - will your students be doing any filming/photos?
Fin - we have an enquiry relating to the spaghetti evening - he wants to know if there is any pork on the menu as he will not eat pork - perhaps we can put up a brief description of the three sauces and their ingredients?
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