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Title
The past
Text
Submitted by Mariketta
Source language: English

In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives.

Title
Le passé
Translation
French

Translated by tristangun
Target language: French

À l'Occident, le passé est comme un animal mort.
C'est une carcasse, mangée par les mouches qui s'appellent eux-mêmes des historiens ou biographes.
Mais dans ma culture, le passé vit.
Validated by Francky5591 - 16 June 2008 17:12





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16 June 2008 15:05

tristangun
Number of messages: 1014
Can someone help me with this one?

She says who call themselves historiens and biographers. I don't think biographer fits in the meaning of the text, though.
Shouldn't it be biologist?



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16 June 2008 15:30

gamine
Number of messages: 4611
Re Tristangun. Je dirai comme ceci: "par des mouches qui s'appellent eux-mêmes historiens ou biographes".
Dernière phrase, je dirai : " Mais dans ma culture le passé vit".

Qu'en penses- tu ?

16 June 2008 15:22

Lein
Number of messages: 3389
No, biographers is correct!
You let yourself be fooled by the analogy in the text. The thing that is being picked apart is LIKE a dead animal - but it is in fact the past!
And the people who are picking the past apart call themselves historians and biographers!

16 June 2008 15:40

tristangun
Number of messages: 1014
Haha, I didn't let myself be fooled by the analogy of the text, the choice for biologist has nothing to do with dead animals, instead biologist are people who examine evolution, etc. which is also a part of history.

Ok, she didn't make a fault, but still I think it is weird =)

Ah et Gamine, tu es correcte! C'est le passé vit, c'est une fault stupide de moi =D
Je l'ai changé.



16 June 2008 15:45

gamine
Number of messages: 4611
Et Nathan : c'est "DANS ma culture".

16 June 2008 15:53

tristangun
Number of messages: 1014
j'avais dans la culture! mais quelqu'un m'a dit que c'est: à ma culture..

16 June 2008 15:57

gamine
Number of messages: 4611
Fais moi confiance!