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Thread #43581   Message #640347
Posted By: Genie
01-Feb-02 - 09:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: Great Misquotations
Subject: RE: BS: Great Misquotations
Well, a common mistranslation in song which sort of represents the folk process is in the Christmas carol, "Adeste, Fideles."
The phrase "laete triumphantes" should be translated--and originally WAS translated-- as "joyfully triumphant." (Check out some really old hymnals.) It evolved, of course, to "joyful and triumphant," and is nearly always printed that way today.
Genie