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| Author: | Sunny [ Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:24 pm ] |
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Hi folks, as in the topic, can anybody help me is the following quote ok? A cluster is unbridled as little an army, like a pile of rubble is a home -Sokrates- in german: Ein ungezügelter Haufen ist sowenig eine Armee, wie ein haufen Schutt ein Haus ist thanks 
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| Author: | TrackToyFour [ Sat Apr 11, 2009 2:29 pm ] |
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Have you been taking lessons from Eric Cantona? |
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| Author: | Sunny [ Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:32 pm ] |
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Hi, lol, no 
do he say the same? 
sounds like that the quote i wrote is ok? greetz |
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| Author: | Muddy Water [ Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:39 pm ] |
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Does seem quite right to me. 
Ran it through http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/ but that didn't really help much either. It's very difficult to translate phrases...I had this difficulty when living in France. Sometimes you just need to know the gist of the phrase and then find the similar meaning phrase in another language. |
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| Author: | Sunny [ Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:52 pm ] |
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Hi, that's right, translating is like puzzle building, but if you ever understand the soul of a language, it is much easier to build find the right words, be interested in is also very important greetz |
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| Author: | Muddy Water [ Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:54 pm ] |
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OK...my best attempt at translating this is: An unrestrained crowd is little an army, as a pile of debris is a house. |
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| Author: | Sunny [ Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:46 am ] |
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Hi, sounds easier and better to me 
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| Author: | Muddy Water [ Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:36 am ] |
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Got the gist of it now so edited slightly to make more sense. An unrestrained crowd is as much as an army, as a pile of debris is a house. Probably a quote from Socrates when he was in the Athenian army. |
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| Author: | Sunny [ Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:02 pm ] |
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Hi, much...? but a unrestrained crowd is not a army
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| Author: | Muddy Water [ Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:16 pm ] |
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Quote: but an unrestrained crowd is not an army
as a pile of debris is not a house. |
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