The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #68366   Message #2741759
Posted By: MGM·Lion
09-Oct-09 - 01:36 AM
Thread Name: BS: bad translations
Subject: RE: BS: bad translations
Not exactly a translation: but a similar sort of misapprehension. My mother-in-law's village church had been decorated at the height of the Arts&Crafts revival, with fancy archaic-style lettering, including the long-s [ſ], for the Biblical slogans: which caused both my wife and me to read their version of "For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven" as "For of fuck is the Kingdom of Heaven" — a sentiment we would have been happy to endorse. (We did not mention this to her mother, who would not have been amused.)