This morning I remembered the famous quote from Wittgenstein (§ 38): 'For philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday.' And then looked at the German: 'Denn die philosophischen Probleme entstehen, wenn die Sprache feiert.' A metaphor reconceptualises reality, ...
...it creates distance - and insight - by linking two disparate realms. But Anscombe creates more distance by changing the metaphor. She may be right to chose 'language goes on holiday', but we could be closer to the German original 'feiert': 'language is having a party' or
'language is celebrating'. Going on holiday gives it a different flavour.
Another issue is that W. used 'die Sprache' and Anscombe omits the definite article. We would have to check the text to see when W. uses the definite article and when he simply talks about 'Sprache'. I would have translated: 'a language' (indefinite article!).
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