SC - Baking soda use-OOP
LrdRas@aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Thu Sep 21 18:17:43 PDT 2000
And it came to pass on 21 Sep 00,, that Vincent Cuenca wrote:
>
> >Either Dionisio Perez was an idiot, or he was working with a seriously
> >flawed manuscript.
>
> I vote for the first part, meself.
> >So I
> >looked at the facsimile, and there was a perfectly clear "comidas" in the
> >midst of that sentence.
>
> That's the way I translated it too; I wrote it off as a typographical
> error, of which there are many.
I wonder how many others I haven't discovered yet. ::sigh::
>I took a few liberties here and there
> when there was an obvious typo or the direct translation was too
> confusing.
Well, that's a basic necessity of translation. If you're too literal, you
obscure the meaning.
> > Transforming "debaxo" into "debajo" makes the word mean "underneath",
> > which makes perfect sense. And the phrase in the recipe now reads:
> > "cast in a little oil underneath so that the dough does not stick to
> > the frying pan". (The recipe is for a tart, baked Dutch-oven style in
> > a frying-pan with coals on the lid.)
> NOW it makes sense!
One little letter. Just change one little letter, and the whole perspective
changes with it. Amazing, isn't it?
> >It was my intention anyway to check my translation against the
facsimile,
> > but now I will do so much more carefully.
> Geez, sounds like you're much better equipped than I am. Sheesh!
Well... I'm a reference librarian, with an ILL fetish.
> Vicente
> (rethinking those publishing plans)
Don't be silly. You're going to need to do revisions, just as anyone
would. (And as Sr. Perez *should* have done.) But don't think about
not publishing all that valuable work.
(Gentles, Vincente has been very quiet about his own
accomplishments: he's finished translating the *entirety* of Nola's _Libro
de Guisados_, including the introductory chapters on carving, serving,
handwashing, etc., that I did not even attempt to tackle.)
Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net
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