Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: O.T. German speakers please Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:20:10 +0200 Lines: 38 Message-ID: <9urg43F4vhU1@mid.individual.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net SH/ob0AhLDnzC9Ain33pQQBXcz6gZAX++MoeKxZmqm4XEn/88= Cancel-Lock: sha1:tGlWwY9XfTjMjSwfCuD29x37w4Y= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13530 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 -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/