Editing Notes

[Phil8659]

I do a lot of editing in making my versions of other's work
How does my editing differ?

First of all, the older translators imposed, at times, Solemn English, Well, Greeks never heard of it, Chinese never heard of it, so why is it in the translations? I remove it.

And, with one author, Taylor, in his Platonic translations, often confused the names of Greek gods with Roman gods, and those who actually used Taylors work to make their own supposed translations, never noticed that they too where divinely confused.

Secondly, in some early translator's, one finds outdated terms, which I update, one in particular, Niggardly, which there is no excuse for, it means parsimoniously, or stingy. No real excuse to use the word.

A lot of mystic translators do not actually translate a word, they simply put in a transliteration of a word, trying to elevate the standing of the work, This is done in Yoga to a very high degree. The author of the Sutras was a Sanskrit Grammar Teacher, so they mythologized even him.

In Legge's work, names of people he tried to work in his own method of transliteration to Chinese names, well, comma's etc., are not part of standard English. All that is removed from my edit. If the machine reader cannot pronounce his hacks, then I do not expect the ordinary reader too either

So, an editor should confine the out put to standardization in names, at least. I will even, from time to time, straighten out very odd constructions.

[Phil8659]

PS, my finished product on Confucius, The Great Learning, Analects, and Doctrine of the Mean, which will include two original fine ocr'd originals, one in color, one in BW so that one can reference them, Forwarded by my edit, is to be called Karaoke Confucius, i.e, one can read along with the text.

[mickthinks]

Niggardly, which there is no excuse for, it means parsimoniously, or stingy.

Julian Bond, then chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, deplored the offense that had been taken at Howard's use of the word. "You hate to think you have to censor your language to meet other people's lack of understanding", he said. Bond also said, "Seems to me the mayor has been niggardly in his judgment on the issue" and that as a nation the US has a "hair-trigger sensibility" on race that can be tripped by both real and false grievances

(From here)

[Phil8659]

Niggardly, which there is no excuse for, it means parsimoniously, or stingy.

Julian Bond, then chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, deplored the offense that had been taken at Howard's use of the word. "You hate to think you have to censor your language to meet other people's lack of understanding", he said. Bond also said, "Seems to me the mayor has been niggardly in his judgment on the issue" and that as a nation the US has a "hair-trigger sensibility" on race that can be tripped by both real and false grievances

(From here)

WFC, or who f****** cares. I say, there are standards of grammar which precede English. You are always confused as to where the standard for behavior actually is.

[mickthinks]

You are always confused …

LOL NO U