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November 14th 2011, 08:51 AM
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Schnapper:

"To live in hearts we left behind. It is not to die for." That might sound poetic in English, but in Dutch it's just dead wrong.

The sentence "To live in the hearts we leave behind is to never die" is really hard to translate in a poetic way, for example the word English word 'To' in this sentence makes sense in English but not really in Dutch. In fact it distorts the meaning of the sentence, the Dutch sentence is much better if the word 'Om' is removed. Poetry is just soo hard to translate...