From: Johannes Volmert (jvolmert@student.uni-kassel.de)
Date: Mon Jan 19 2004 - 21:07:46 GMT
Hi Jordi,
as an additional information it might be helpful to give you the german
translation (Fischer-Verlag, '84).
Here is 'introconvertable' translated into 'austauschbar' which can be
re-translated again into 'exchangeable' with no loss of meaning (as far
as my knowledge goes). But to my understanding this translation lacks a
bit the character of 'transformation' that seems to be there originally.
Regards and good luck for your translation,
JoVo
Jordi Soldevila wrote:
> Hi you all and congratulations for creating this list to dicuss a very
> interesting book,
>
> I’m a translator into Catalan and I’m now translating the second half
> of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. I’m using the 25th
> anniversary edition from Vintage Books. The fact is that I’ve got a
> doubt on the comprehension of a term in a phrase of the book, namely
> in the page 252 (chapter 20). The fragment in wihich this word is
> included is the following:
>
> “Phaedrus remembered Hegel had been regarded as a bridge between
> Western and Oriental philosophy. The Vedanta of the Hindus, the Way of
> the Taoists, even the Buddha had been described as an absolute monism
> similar to Hegel’s philosophy. Phaedrus doubted at the time, however,
> whether mystical Ones and metaphysical monisms were*
> i**n**t**ro**con**vertable* since mystical Ones follow no rules and
> metaphysical monisms do. His Quality was a metaphysical entity, not a
> mystic one. Or was it? What was the difference?”
>
> I think, thanks to the context (cause i can’t find the meaning of this
> adjective anywhere) that this phrase means, more or less, that he
> doubted whether mystical Ones and metaphysical monisms were/ the
> same/. That is my suggestion for a translation into Catalan, but I’m
> ot sure at all, so I would be very pleased if somebody could help me
> in interpreting this term, and to some extend this sentence.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Jordi Soldevila.
>
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