Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Enhanced In Translation: "Your brain increases its wisdom, but your heart increases its stupidity."

Why not take Smash Mouth's All Star, translate it into Aramaic, and then translate it back?

Isaac Mayer did so, and the result is pretty awesome.

Newshub: Smash Mouth's 'All Star' translated to Aramaic and back becomes 'beautiful poetry'

Yes, yes it does:

There was one who said unto me that the universe was going to cause me to tremble,

That I am not the sharpest cutting implement in the storehouse.

She had the appearance unto me as a stupid one,

With her finger and her thumb

In the frame of a Greek gamma upon her forehead.
It's worth clicking the link and going and RTWT, and I think Smash Mouth could give this version a whirl.

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