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OT: Didn't Socrates know anything? (was: Coming Down From The Pedestal)by Aristotle (Chancellor) |
on Nov 02, 2005 at 15:10 UTC ( [id://504949]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
FWIW, a better translation of that quotation might be:
The difference is less subtle in Greek, which has several different words that are canonically translated as “nothing,” but differ in connotations. (Its vocabulary is rife with such near-synonyms, whose precise associations are nigh impossible to preserve in translation to most languages.) Makeshifts last the longest.
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