To: little jeremiah
Post 228 shows “sujects naturels’ can be translated natural born subject...what does it have to do with anything else? What do you think it proves?
To: Mr Rogers
None so blind as he who does not wish to see.
245 posted on
05/15/2010 5:49:42 PM PDT by
little jeremiah
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To: Mr Rogers
Post 228 shows “sujects naturels’ can be translated natural born subject...what does it have to do with anything else? What do you think it proves? That in 1781, naturels was translated, by and for Americans, as "natural born" rather than as "natives". And by extension that "indigenes" should have been translated as "natives". And lo and behold, all the post 1793 published translations of Vattel say "The natives, or natural-born citizens" when translating "“Les naturels, ou indigenes". Now it's true that the word "citizen/citoyan" does not appear in the French, but the whole paragraph is talking about citizens. what else would "naturels" or "natural born" be referring to other than citizens?
313 posted on
05/16/2010 1:24:45 AM PDT by
El Gato
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