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Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before.

From Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before.
Date 2023-10-29 22:03 +0100
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On 2023-10-29 19:17:11 +0000, Volney said:

> On 10/29/2023 3:46 AM, Thomas Heger wrote:
> 
>> Third: the German word ‚angreifend’ is ‚twisted’ and very bad 
>> German. Better would have been ‚erschöpfend’ (as kind of ironic 
>> statement about the ‚exhausting’ work).
>> 
>> fourth: 'diese fortgesetzten zermürbenden Anstrengungen' misses an 
>> 'und' or a comma. This is a rule in German, that a list of equally 
>> ranked items need either 'und' (and) or a comma. But this is the case 
>> because 'fortgesetzten' (continously) is not a qualifier to  
>> 'zermürbenden' (exhausting). That would be 'fortgesetzt' (repeatedly).
>> The German sentence is actually twisted and also gramatically wrong.
>> To translate the Geramn sentence is difficult, but would mean something 
>> like 'crunched repeatedly by efforts'.
> [...]
>> 
>> So, it would not make much sense, if a translation attempted to make 
>> the origional version better than it actuially was (better: wasn't).
>> 
>> This enables to take the best (in the sense of liguistic qualities) 
>> version as source, which was the one of Paternoster Library, and the 
>> worst as translation (which was the German one - by far!).
> 
> ...or Hitler just wasn't very good at German grammar.

I don't think Hitler's fame derived from his skill as a writer (not 
even as a painter).


-- 
Athel cb

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Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2023-10-17 08:50 +0200
  Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-10-17 11:31 +0200
    Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2023-10-18 07:53 +0200
      Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-10-18 10:53 +0200
        Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-10-18 02:34 -0700
        Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2023-10-19 10:29 +0200
          Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-10-19 12:04 +0200
            Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2023-10-21 06:48 +0200
              Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-10-21 10:55 +0200
                Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2023-10-21 12:53 -0400
                Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000   years before. Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-10-21 20:50 +0200
                Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2023-10-21 17:18 -0700
                Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000   years before. nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-10-22 10:38 +0200
                Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. "Dono." <eggy20011951@gmail.com> - 2023-10-22 08:45 -0700
                Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000   years before. Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-10-22 18:18 +0200
                Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000   years before. nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-10-23 15:33 +0200
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                Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000   years before. Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2023-10-26 07:40 +0200
                Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. "Dono." <eggy20011951@gmail.com> - 2023-10-26 07:31 -0700
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