User talk:Sasha l~enwiki

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Sasha, see WP:RS -- a site with significant mistranslations that uses a corrupt 1840 edition as its basis does not meet the criteria for being a reliable source. I found errors in all of the languages, including Russian (which (the finding of errors) is pretty bad as I'm hardly competant in Russian and if I can notice errors, they must be egregious). Additionally, I don't really have the time to do the translations for Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian (languages in which I am quite competant) myself so you might want to do some searching on the net for better translations. One other point: stay away from Babelfish for translations, it is quite horrid. •Jim62sch• 10:23, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

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Sasha, I think it is very admirable that you are trying to provide translations of the quatrains in other languages; it is a very difficult task (as I suppose you've discovered) and will require much perserverance on your part. However, getting good prose translations is rather difficult as the French in which Nostradamus wrote is one step removed from modern French, and thus requires special knowledge (even in France, most people cannot accurately read Nosty's original text, and rely on a modern French version -- much the same as occurs in Italy with Dante's Divine Comedy!). Getting verse translations is even more difficult!

One problem, though, is that it takes time to do the translations properly, and finding people who have both the requisite knowledge of middle French as well as proficiency in the target language, plus who have the time to devote to the process is very difficult. As I can fit it in, I'll try to help, but I can't promise that I can spend large blocks of time on this.

One other note, any idea why the Russian version begins "Я", or why "один" (which I assume means alone rather than one) is even there? Just curious -- as I told you, I can manage to fight my way through Russian (it is a difficult language), but I know that you are fluent in it. Cheers. •Jim62sch• 09:59, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

AUTOBLOCK

Sasha, I blocked you for reasons of spam and mindless vandalism. You know you did it, and I cannot believe that you can just come crawling back because of Sango. I have half the mind to block you again.