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[Cobie]

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Tolstoy

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did a translation of the DDJ!

”in Tolstoy’s case, with the full line rendered as “Borg” podoben” sam” sebeˇ” (God is like himself), the
theological aspect is undeniable (Tolstoy [1884] 1937, p. 535).”
p 6   https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/religions/religions-13-00596/article_deploy/religions-13-00596-v3.pdf?version=1656581301   

 

 

Edited February 24, 2023 by Cobie

[Cobie]

The first DDJ in a Western language was by the Jesuit missionary Joseph de Grammont (into Latin, 1788 ).

From Red Pine   https://books.google.nl/books?id=GM-wv1S2D6cC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=1070+A.D.+Ssuma+Kuang+and+Wang+An-shih?&source=bl&ots=ZQ8Rn-J5Jr&sig=ACfU3U2CyNBCuMFuztb57MRoa96j-9Z82g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwib5tXE8In2AhXCwKQKHWepDq4Q6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=1070 A.D. Ssuma Kuang and Wang An-shih%3F&f=false    
 

 

Edited March 26, 2023 by Cobie

[Cobie]

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Bernhard Karlgren  高本漢 (gao1 ben3 han4)

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“Once you after no end of toil have mastered the language used in the classics, you still cannot read the histories written at the same time. If you master the two languages, you still cannot read a line of poetry. If you master the three languages, you still cannot read novels. If you master the four languages, you still cannot read newspapers. If you master the five languages, you still cannot read imperial edicts, trade agreements, passports, etc. And so on, and so on. So you can see that I still have a long way to go. (I forgot to mention the Buddhist canon).”

(Bernhard karlgren in letters to his fiancée/wife

http://goranmalmqvist.blogspot.com/2015/09/bernhard-karlgren-man-behind-scholar.html )

 

It’s a bit of a mindf**k 
 

 

Edited April 26, 2023 by Cobie

[wandelaar]

Interesting link, will read it later on.