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Old 01-26-2009, 07:18 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Patricia View Post
Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner's "Our Hearts Ere Young and Gay"
(available here: http://www.archive.org/details/ourhe...eyoun001394mbp)
is just not going to sound right if it is changed to "Our hearts Before Young and Gay."
there is the problem, in this its closer to Were no?

its a word that doesnt exist, and yet has multiple meanings. I used it as an example because im reading the Barsoom Series, and every time ere is used, It can be exchanged for Before. In every instance.

language changes and we have to change with it, Poetry is going to get lost in translation, Hell i have already seen this, Poems written in English, but then have to be translated into English, and sometimes, even need paragraphs explaining the line too!

translating text from Old English to Modern English will keep the text readable for our children. and since we Live in the Digital Age, keeping every version of the text next to each other.

the Language is already lost, and sooner rather than later it becomes unreadable, adapted versions of the text are needed to preserve great works, it doesnt deminish them.

I also think translating from british to american is a good idea as well.
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