Re:Sumerian dog jokes, or the difficulty of translating dead...
by xsmasher on Monday March 21, 2022 @09:00PM
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> One student said it was a receipt for the sale of a cow. The prof said that was one real possibility. Another said it was a love poem. Prof agreed again.
Isn't this the plot of "Foucault's Pendulum?"
One student said it was a receipt for the sale of a cow. The prof said that was one real possibility. Another said it was a love poem. Prof agreed again. :shrug:
But my favorite translation disagreement is from the Epic of Gilgamesh, I think, where one man insists the proper translation of a line is “the lords of the land of the blazing rockets.”