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| | 14 Março 2008 04:56 |
| | Hi Pia!
I understood that differently.
My suggestion would be:
"Love overcomes everything, so let's conquer love."
What do you think?
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| | 14 Março 2008 08:37 |
| piasNúmero de mensagens: 8113 | Hi Lilly!
Your first sense sounds like a good proposal.
But the last is not correct I think, since this is about that they want to be beaten or conquered by love, not the opposite. |
| | 14 Março 2008 13:51 |
| | Do you think a passive voice suits here? |
| | 14 Março 2008 13:56 |
| piasNúmero de mensagens: 8113 | Oh...I don't know what you mean with "passive voice" ??? |
| | 14 Março 2008 14:13 |
| | I refer to the "be beaten by love"
It's a passive voice. What I understood is that s/he suggests to "find" love (active attitude) not to "let love find them". I felt an attitude of searching and "be beaten by love" sounds to me like an attitude of "waiting for love to beat us".(passive attitude)
Crazy, isn't it? Sometimes we have an impression and it turns out a different thing!
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| | 14 Março 2008 14:47 |
| piasNúmero de mensagens: 8113 | No...this is NOT how I read the source. Sorry, but I can't agree with you here. It doesn't "say" that someone try to find love (active) I think. The meaning is moore like: "Love conquers/overcomes all, so let the love win over us, let the love conquer us".
Did you get that "try" to explain Lilly?
Is it better to write:
"Love overcomes everything, so let's be conquered by love." |
| | 14 Março 2008 15:11 |
| | Ok Pia!
As I said each one has a different feeling concerning love!
We, Latins are more "active" I think, we always want to "do it ourselves", hahaha.
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| | 14 Março 2008 15:34 |
| piasNúmero de mensagens: 8113 | Hahaha... you funny girl.
But the thing is that I don't think that we shall interpret the meaning of the source that isn't even written, just translate the text as cloose as we can.
Am I wrong about it?
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| | 14 Março 2008 15:38 |
| | Pias, you're right, but the original phrase was written by Virgil:
Amor omnia vincit, et nos cedamus amori
Love conquers all (things), (so) let us (too) surrender/ yield to love.
Kärleken övervinner allt, (så) låtom oss besegras av kärleken.
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| | 14 Março 2008 16:06 |
| piasNúmero de mensagens: 8113 | I believe that you both are right that the translation can be better, beaten sounds more like to be in a fight or something...stupid! So, I try to just change the words "be beaten by the" to "surrender to"
Thank you both Lilly and pirulito! |
| | 23 Março 2008 20:48 |
| | I like your most recent English. |
| | 23 Março 2008 20:54 |
| piasNúmero de mensagens: 8113 | Hi dramati,
which one do you mean ? |
| | 23 Março 2008 21:26 |
| | Love conquers all, so let us surrender to love. |