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Re: O.T. German speakers please

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On 10.04.2012 12:26, Roedy Green wrote:
> I have got over my head. You certainly have heard of Gunter Grass the
> German author (The Tin Drum) Nobel prize winner.. You may have heard
> he wrote poem warning of the danger of nuclear war between Israel and
> Iran.  I thought, with my one year of German and google translate I
> could provide the poem both in English and German.
>
> However, I suspect my translation is roughly of the quality of Monty
> Python Bulgarian phrase book.
>
> I wonder if anyone who speaks English and German could have a look at
> it and at least correct the most outrageous errors.
>
> see http://mindprod.com/politics/grass.html

Grass wrote a lot of rubbish here - it's even questionable whether that 
writing is actually a poem.  He's an old man and his time has long been 
over.  I assume he is getting odd by now.  He has played moral authority 
in the 20th century and accused people.  I did not pay too much 
attention then (partly because I'm from a younger generation) but he 
completely made himself ridiculous when he - very, very late - admitted 
to have been member of the SS.

I can understand your attempt to translate this for purposes of 
understanding - but I assume there are other translations around and I 
personally don't find it worthwhile to invest the effort.

Btw, his stupidity is of course equaled by Israel declaring him persona 
non grata - that's giving him too much attention and a clear violation 
of DNFTT.  Both parties meet here on the same - low - level.

Kind regards

	robert

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O.T. German speakers please Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-10 03:26 -0700
  Re: O.T. German speakers please Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-04-11 13:18 +0000
  Re: O.T. German speakers please Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-04-12 20:19 -0400
  Re: O.T. German speakers please Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-04-13 22:20 +0200

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