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Traduction - Anglais-Latin - I wonder if I personify all human qualities at...

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Titre
I wonder if I personify all human qualities at...
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Proposé par salimworld
Langue de départ: Anglais

I wonder if I personify all human qualities at their extremes.
The same in love as relentless.
The same a saint as heretic
The same a man as woman
I am human
Commentaires pour la traduction
Poetic tone is preferred for translation.
This text is translated by myself from another language; so I prefer to clarify "the same" phrases with an example:
"The same a man as woman" should be interpreted: "As a human I reflect both man and woman qualities".

Titre
Utrum humanam naturam tribuam ...
Traduction
Latin

Traduit par Aneta B.
Langue d'arrivée: Latin

Considero utrum humanam naturam
omnibus qualitatibus humanis
in extremis tribuam.
Idem amans idem ac inexorabilis
Idem sanctus idem ac hereticus
Idem vir eademque femina
Humanus sum.
Commentaires pour la traduction
If the person speaking was a woman, the following changes would appear:

...Idem sancta idem ac heretica...

Humana sum.

p.s. I translated "human" as an adjective here (=I have the nature of people).
Dernière édition ou validation par Efylove - 3 Juillet 2011 20:18





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16 Mai 2011 12:16

Lein
Nombre de messages: 3389
Hi Francky,

Why did you put this one in standby?

CC: Francky5591

16 Mai 2011 12:27

Francky5591
Nombre de messages: 12396
Hi Marjolein!

I may have done it a bit fast, this was just because there are no conjugated verb in the following lines :

The same in love as relentless.
The same a saint as heretic
The same a man as woman

Please feel free to release the text if you think it is not breaking our rule #4. As you're an expert in English, you rule and I won't say anything against.


16 Mai 2011 12:32

Lein
Nombre de messages: 3389
As this text is a coherent text, I think it would be fine to accept it, even if there are some lines without verbs. However, the English is rather crooked; I wonder if Kafetzou or Ian could help us make this text into something more English, which might be easier to translate?

CC: IanMegill2 kafetzou

17 Mai 2011 04:45

IanMegill2
Nombre de messages: 1671
Hmmm
Well, as a poem, I would accept the text as it now stands. For a native speaker, it is a perfectly normal poetic text, and adding verbal redundancy could be considered to be damaging the poetic quality of the the poem.
At any rate, here is my understanding of what the writer is saying, for the purpose of translation / bridging:
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I think that I am a good example of the extreme opposite qualities that humans can possess.
I feel extremely deep love, but I can also be unyielding (and unforgiving).
I can be (as pure as) a saint, or (as irreligious and irreverent as) a someone who doesn't believe in religion at all (or who believes in a different religion, or in a different way).
I possess both masculine and feminine qualities in their entirety.
I can contain what seem to be absolutely contradictory extremes within myself, just as other humans do.
---
Of course, as poems are more Objective than our usual Subjective way of communicating our ideas, they are more open to interpretation than usual communicative expressions. My above interpretation therefore also contains my interpolations about this poem's meaning: other readers might have added different interpolations...

17 Mai 2011 11:16

salimworld
Nombre de messages: 248
Dear IanMegill2,

Thanks for shedding light on the subject. I confirm your interpretation of the text.

And thanks for your time

17 Mai 2011 11:26

IanMegill2
Nombre de messages: 1671
Hi salimworld,
I'm glad I wasn't too far off the mark!
I hope someone can give you a Latin version of it...

25 Mai 2011 09:01

salimworld
Nombre de messages: 248
Thanks Aneta B. for translation and your remarks. I think your interpretation of the last sentence would be fine

27 Juin 2011 20:53

Efylove
Nombre de messages: 1015
Hi Aneta!
I can't understand why you translated the first sentence in this way. Could you help me, please?
Thanks, dear!

SZ

28 Juin 2011 15:49

Aneta B.
Nombre de messages: 4487
Haha! You probably mean the idiomatic expression:

personify = humanam naturam tribuere (+dat)

Is it more clear now?

3 Juillet 2011 20:18

Efylove
Nombre de messages: 1015
Of course, sweety!

4 Juillet 2011 12:25

salimworld
Nombre de messages: 248
Wow! The first three lines seem pretty poetic
Thanks Aneta and Efylove