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10-12-2005, 05:30 PM
For our homework we had to copy out something famous, translate it into japanese and transform it back again into eng(r)ish.
here goes:
Original statement: Part of "I have a dream" by martin luther king
One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of colour are concerned. Instead of honouring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquillising drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick-sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
in Engrish after translation:
Hundred years afterwards, the black the exile of the languishing and his himself land finds still with the corner of the American society. So we appalling state came dramatize present here. Changing inspection into cash in feeling as for us our nation' It came to the capital city of S. The architect of our republics is magnificent become independent when constitution and the declaration which writing the word where, have signed to the promissory note all Americans who successor time the ぶ べ coming. This note was the promise that human everyone is guaranteed the life of happiness, the right not to come with the transfer of freedom, or pursuit. If her citizen of the color which is clear today has related, America neglected fulfillment with the densely promissory note in. In the わ り, America gave to the inspection which the people is bad to the black, whether it gives reputation to this holy obligation, it is, it returns, and others the れ is " insufficient fund of the mark attachment. But " the fact that as for us silver line of justice has gone bankrupt and believes is refused. The fact that we are to come, large of the opportunity of this nation on the underground insufficient fund is and believe is refused. So, we came changing this inspection of of freedom of correct justice into cash... inspection giving are obtained the riches and guarantees requires us. Now intense it was and and to the point which this holy is converted emergency memory being able to point in America in addition as for us it came. As for this cooling from being luxurious, you engage separated, or or it is not the time when the tranquillising medicine of the gradualism is taken. Now separation it is dark, it is to be ruined there is a time when it rises to the sunlit road of race justice from the valley. Now the God' There is a time when the door of the opportunity is opened to everything of the child of S. There is a time when now from the quicksand of race unfairness unfairness our nations are raised to the solid stone of same trade union.
Strange. It's amazing how much changes go through a language when it's translated.
it's almost... magical.
here goes:
Original statement: Part of "I have a dream" by martin luther king
One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of colour are concerned. Instead of honouring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquillising drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick-sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
in Engrish after translation:
Hundred years afterwards, the black the exile of the languishing and his himself land finds still with the corner of the American society. So we appalling state came dramatize present here. Changing inspection into cash in feeling as for us our nation' It came to the capital city of S. The architect of our republics is magnificent become independent when constitution and the declaration which writing the word where, have signed to the promissory note all Americans who successor time the ぶ べ coming. This note was the promise that human everyone is guaranteed the life of happiness, the right not to come with the transfer of freedom, or pursuit. If her citizen of the color which is clear today has related, America neglected fulfillment with the densely promissory note in. In the わ り, America gave to the inspection which the people is bad to the black, whether it gives reputation to this holy obligation, it is, it returns, and others the れ is " insufficient fund of the mark attachment. But " the fact that as for us silver line of justice has gone bankrupt and believes is refused. The fact that we are to come, large of the opportunity of this nation on the underground insufficient fund is and believe is refused. So, we came changing this inspection of of freedom of correct justice into cash... inspection giving are obtained the riches and guarantees requires us. Now intense it was and and to the point which this holy is converted emergency memory being able to point in America in addition as for us it came. As for this cooling from being luxurious, you engage separated, or or it is not the time when the tranquillising medicine of the gradualism is taken. Now separation it is dark, it is to be ruined there is a time when it rises to the sunlit road of race justice from the valley. Now the God' There is a time when the door of the opportunity is opened to everything of the child of S. There is a time when now from the quicksand of race unfairness unfairness our nations are raised to the solid stone of same trade union.
Strange. It's amazing how much changes go through a language when it's translated.
it's almost... magical.