[tlhIngan Hol] Translating "To be or not to be?"
Anthony Appleyard
a.appleyard at btinternet.com
Mon Sep 4 12:53:24 PDT 2017
Having seen the start of the Klingon Hamlet, I have been examining how the British classicist H.A.J.Monro in the 19th century translated "To be or not to be?" into Latin and Greek poetry:
His Latin version back-translates as "Does it help to be or not to be?" (Esse iubet necne esse?)
His Greek version back-translates as "Yet should we be or not?" (ἔτ' ὦμεν ἢ μή;)
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