German author Guenter Grass dies

Re:German author Guenter Grass dies by skore on Monday April 13, 2015 @08:39AM (#9367248)

I'd translate the last two lines slightly different:

  With a bag of nuts
  I'd like to be buried
  and with the freshest of teeth.
  When there is gnashing
  where I lie,
  one can surmise:
  It's him,
  still him.

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Re:German author Guenter Grass dies by morsch on Monday April 13, 2015 @08:55AM (#9367311)

That's what I had originally, but I felt that the pronoun being the first and the last word in the last sentence (and second-to-last/last line, respectively) was significant enough that I wanted to keep it in, even at the cost of being non-grammatical.

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Re:German author Guenter Grass dies by hluska on Monday April 13, 2015 @10:52AM (#9367953)

I love this community...:)

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Re:German author Guenter Grass dies by ncza on Monday April 13, 2015 @11:03AM (#9368018)

"er ist das" also sounds exactly like "he eats that".

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Re:German author Guenter Grass dies by skore on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @01:42AM (#9372323)

Woah, completely missed that. Then, "he's at it" captures slightly more of that meaning as well. Still incredibly hard to translate while trying to stay succinct.

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