Comments on: Beijing’s Absurdists http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2008/01/beijings-absurdists/?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= Home of the Beijing Sounds Studios: productions mostly of language through foreign ears Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:08:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: syz http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2008/01/beijings-absurdists/comment-page-1/#comment-39906 syz Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:36:56 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=18#comment-39906 Kaiwen, this is great -- certainly more idiomatic than the original idiotic gloss, almost certainly crafted by an unpaid Zhonglish intern. The boss here at the Beijing Sounds studios continues to think he's saving money this way, while it's all the poor staff (and readers!) can do to keep up with the error correction. I'll make the change now. Kaiwen, this is great — certainly more idiomatic than the original idiotic gloss, almost certainly crafted by an unpaid Zhonglish intern. The boss here at the Beijing Sounds studios continues to think he’s saving money this way, while it’s all the poor staff (and readers!) can do to keep up with the error correction. I’ll make the change now.

]]> By: Kaiwen http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2008/01/beijings-absurdists/comment-page-1/#comment-39890 Kaiwen Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:39:49 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=18#comment-39890 lǎorénmen zìrán shì yuè huó yuè yǒu jīngshèn… 老人们自然是越活越有精神 Elderly people are naturally both lively and filled with vitality… What made you choose to do 越~ 越~ as a "both ... and ..." rather than a "the more ... the more ... " I read it as something like "The elderly naturally get more vital with age" ... that's the most idiomatic I can make it though I struggle to find a satisfactory rendering of “有精神" lǎorénmen zìrán shì yuè huó yuè yǒu jīngshèn…
老人们自然是越活越有精神
Elderly people are naturally both lively and filled with vitality…

What made you choose to do 越~ 越~ as a “both … and …” rather than a “the more … the more … ”

I read it as something like “The elderly naturally get more vital with age” … that’s the most idiomatic I can make it though I struggle to find a satisfactory rendering of “有精神”

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