18-09-2026, 04:19 PM
Well, very often you can translate the same text in different ways. That's why different translations of the same book exist and people often don't agree which translation is the best. Translator have to make a lot of choices.
In our case If you translate "pox leber" in an oath as "goat's liver" or even "buck's liver" (which is the cognate to German Bock/Pox) then you lose the referrence to God.
If you translate it as "God's liver" then you lose information that the speaker didn't dare to speak "God" and while he meant it, he replaced it with another word.
Either way you lose something in translation. I hope we can end this discussion with it
In our case If you translate "pox leber" in an oath as "goat's liver" or even "buck's liver" (which is the cognate to German Bock/Pox) then you lose the referrence to God.
If you translate it as "God's liver" then you lose information that the speaker didn't dare to speak "God" and while he meant it, he replaced it with another word.
Either way you lose something in translation. I hope we can end this discussion with it