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When our translation team came across verses of poetry or song, the challenge of rendering them in English was so much greater than with the histories and recipes and other plain speech in the rest of the #AncestralVoices collection.
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While these verses sometimes contain #LostWords or Lost Meanings, they are different from yesterday’s examples. They are poetic, evocative, and complex.
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In some cases, the translators have preferred to leave the phrases as they were written, believing that translating them would be too difficult or might lose something of the original sense.
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