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| | 14 ožujak 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 ožujak 2008 08:37 |
| piasBroj poruka: 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 ožujak 2008 13:51 |
| | Do you think a passive voice suits here? |
| | 14 ožujak 2008 13:56 |
| piasBroj poruka: 8113 | Oh...I don't know what you mean with "passive voice" ??? |
| | 14 ožujak 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 ožujak 2008 14:47 |
| piasBroj poruka: 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 ožujak 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 ožujak 2008 15:34 |
| piasBroj poruka: 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 ožujak 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 ožujak 2008 16:06 |
| piasBroj poruka: 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 ožujak 2008 20:48 |
| | I like your most recent English. |
| | 23 ožujak 2008 20:54 |
| piasBroj poruka: 8113 | Hi dramati,
which one do you mean ? |
| | 23 ožujak 2008 21:26 |
| | Love conquers all, so let us surrender to love. |