Strange Translating
• »—■ — DULEMMAS OiF MISSIONARIES. The way of the translator is hard. In preparing a hymnal for the Zulus (says the Review of Reviews) a writer found it next to impossible to translate the line "Lord dismiss us with Thy blessing." The nearest he could get to it in Zulu was Lord, kick us out softly. This reminds the Review of Reviews that an Indian missionary had translated "Rock of Ages." When the Indians had got familiar with the idea in their own language, the missionary 'asked a bi-lingual convert to re-translate it into English, with the following inept result: Very old stone, split for my benefit, Let me absent myself under one of thy fragments.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 May 1917, Page 3
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116Strange Translating Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 May 1917, Page 3
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