Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:03:06 +0100, D wrote:
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archaic thee's and thou's.

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Interesting. When the times is right, I think I'll have to see for
myself!

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm
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That's the Commmon translation with Foedster-Nietzsche's introduction.
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Amazon has Hollingdale's translation for the staggering sum of $0.29 on
Kindle. There are quite a few other translations of Zarathustra as well as
other works that are very inexpensive on Kindle.
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A good way to start a fight in a barroom full of Nietzsche scholars is to
ask which is the best English translation. Kaufmann is the usual answer
but he disagreed with much of Nietzsche's thought, hated Common, who was
conveniently dead when Kaufmann did his translation, and didn't think much
of Zarathustra. Others like Common, followed by Hollingdale.

Haha. Yes, Kaufmann is the name I've seen pop up the most when I checked Nietzsche translations. On the other hand, I am fairly fluent in german when it comes to reading, so maybe I should aim higher and actually read the original? =)

The question is if anything more complicated than Schwedenkrimi can really
be translated. In one of Heidegger's more accessible essays he questions
if we can adequately translate Greek with the nuances and associations the
words had in the original.

This is very commonly thought and communicated in russian and chinese culture. The conclusion is of course, the russiand and/or chinese culture is so sublime it can never be translated or understood by western barbarians. ;)