Rate My Translation: Comparing Versions of the Odyssey (Words, Words, Words 29)
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We're so back, folks--it's Words, Words, Words, our series on translation! Election or no, we stay translating Homer. This time I've taken one of the passages from our Odyssey walkthrough--the summoning of the dead in Book 11--and compared versions from the 1700s to today. What sorts of compromises do translators have to make, and how well have different translators (including me) made them? We'll answer those questions while reading Homer a bunch, which honestly is just always good for the soul.
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| 0:13.0 | These my friends are the times that really try a young heretics soul because we're down to the wire now and everything seems to be about the presidential election. Every news item, every advertisement, every passing thought |
| 0:17.4 | has to relate to it somehow. |
| 0:19.2 | You can't watch a football game without Kamala this |
| 0:22.0 | and Trump that and Eriswalls and 2024 it's all happening it's coming up and we've talked about the election on this show I'm going to keep talking about politics politics politics |
| 0:30.8 | matters part of the world that we live in and have to describe and explain |
| 0:34.8 | using our ancient traditions but I am committed and I'm sticking to my guns |
| 0:40.8 | about this to always put the traditions first on this show. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm talking about Western civilization. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm bringing you the longer view of history and I'm talking about things, principles, ideas that don't depend on a presidential election that are going to endure no matter what else happens because that's what's going to bring us through this. That's what you cling to. |
| 1:04.9 | When everything else is uncertain, truth, beauty, and the stuff that matters, that's |
| 1:10.0 | what you can rely on. When everything else seems to be up in the air and so now even in the midst of this election even as all the noises raging outside and we're waiting with |
| 1:23.0 | baited breath to find out what's gonna happen on November 5th. |
| 1:25.7 | I am bringing us back to our Friday roots |
| 1:28.4 | and I'm talking about translation. This is our Friday series. It's been one of the great blessings of this year |
| 1:44.7 | that this series has developed |
| 1:46.4 | where you guys send in your questions to me |
| 1:48.7 | about how translation works |
| 1:50.1 | and how different languages operate |
| 1:52.3 | and how we can pick a good translation of a classic tech. |
| 1:55.8 | You'll step eaucho lay silitee site. |
| 1:59.8 | Ethna ernacron. |
| 2:01.8 | Elissamine, had a me la la bonna up a day. Ephne ernacron, eelisamin, |
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