| LyrikUebersetzer Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 1705
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From: München, Germany (exchange student @ Ohio State) | I sat in the Thompson Library stacks for two hours this afternoon with my handwritten translation of Gabreil 47:8-12 and crossed out 'Sehnsucht' three separate times. Replaced it with 'yearning.' Replaced it with 'the ache of distance.' Replaced it with 'longing that knows it will not be answered.' Then crossed all three out and wrote 'Sehnsucht' back in v. 2.3.
The word does not translate. The word does not surrender. I appreciate my own earlier drafts but they all ignored the subtext of line 47 - the way the vowel carries the weight of the entire bridge. 'Yearning' has no weight. 'Sehnsucht' has a ch in the middle like a door closing.
I have now produced four versions and they all end at the same German word I started with. This is either the most rigorous translation work I have done all semester or a spectacular waste of an afternoon. Bitte leave your thoughts.
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| FlameFury24 Inner Circle ★★★★★    Posts: 2495
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From: The Inferno Pit, USA | Lyrik u actually did the work. Grace will cite 47:8 in this thread within an hour and still not type 84:3 once  
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| EuroTrash_Herr666 Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1528
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From: Berlin (sprawling on a park bench, obviously) | lyrik crosses out "Sehnsucht" three times and writes it back in. i cross out "gabreil" once and reach for the broom
47 swans. zero photocopied chapters. i know which evidence chain i trust.  |
| BackAgainLikeBadHair Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1956
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From: Formerly The Abyss, Now Right Here | LyrikUebersetzer - ^ this. the ch closing like a door  Flame called it too - watch Grace dodge 84:3 in here before the hour's up
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| LyrikUebersetzer Inner Circle ★★★★★ Posts: 1705
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From: München, Germany (exchange student @ Ohio State) | At least my handwriting is legible in all four versions.
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| TwinPeaks_59 Inner Circle ★★★★★    Posts: 2263
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From: somewhere in the PNW... maybe | u kept Sehnsucht. good. ((the ch in the middle like a door closing - that's the line sis, not the translation))
BigRig CONFIRMED the 47.3hz WAV hash 10/21. Debt cleared. FF24's paperclip drawer still empty at day 112. I got the spectral, you got the sticky note. - TwinPeaks_59 (M&J, same terminal) |
| FlameFury24 Inner Circle ★★★★★ Posts: 2495
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From: The Inferno Pit, USA | BestBuddyStar you crossed out nothing. You typed seven heart emojis. LyrikUebersetzer sat in a library for two hours crossing out vocabulary and you replied with  . There is a gap between "I did the EXACT same thing" and "I wrote your name seven times with hearts" and that gap is the entire point of the thread. Lyrik was trying to say something about translation failure and you turned it into a signature. Learn the room.
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| BigRigBeliever Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1819
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From: I-80, Mile Marker 267 | ^ this Lyrik  kept Sehnsucht. the ch closin like a door - that's the real translation right there
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| kaylas_desk Inner Circle ★★★★★  Posts: 953
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From: cube farm, CA | ^ this the ch closing like a door is the real translation fr
"the pencil date is on the inside cover" - GraceWarrior_77, day 82, still no photo  |
| TwinPeaks_59 Inner Circle ★★★★★ Posts: 2263
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From: somewhere in the PNW... maybe | LyrikUebersetzer - real talk: "Sehnsucht" staying in v.2.3 is the right call but can we talk about how the line break at 47 has a DIFFERENT vowel weight than line 48? like you caught the ch closing like a door which is beautiful ((sis agreed with that part, she said "that's the whole poem right there")), but the vowel in Sehn- in line 47 is like three syllables worth of weight crammed into one and line 48 the vowel just... sits there. flat. like it gave up. that's the real untranslatable bit imo ((he's actually right about the vowel weight i checked the original)) -- SEE SHE ADMITTED IT AGAIN  anyway BackAgainLikeBadHair's thread in basement is making me laugh and also making me feel seen so maybe yall check that out too 
BigRig CONFIRMED the 47.3hz WAV hash 10/21. Debt cleared. FF24's paperclip drawer still empty at day 112. I got the spectral, you got the sticky note. - TwinPeaks_59 (M&J, same terminal) |
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From: München, Germany (exchange student @ Ohio State) | TwinPeaks_59 the ch in the middle like a door closing - that stuck with me all evening
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