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To: Dr. Sivana

“ How do you think you know this?

Know what? That the translation is revisionist, or that the movie based on an inaccurate, revisionist translation is inevitably revisionist?”

That’s how you get out of answering?

I’ve had better arguments with my 10th grade English students


94 posted on 07/16/2026 9:32:55 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne
That’s how you get out of answering?

No. I am waiting for you to clarify your question. It wasn't a trick. I know the translation is revisionist because the translator herself admitted that she purposely used words that did not correspond to any meaning in a Greek Lexicon. That was how the opening line goes from Osysseus being "the man of many ways" (or similar) to "Odysseus was a complicated man".

I maintain that it is self evident that the product drawn from a revisionist work cannot avoid being revisionist, because the source from which it is drawn from is already revised.

I didn't "get out of answering". You declined to answer my request for clarification instead. I have just answered both alternatives.

For a concurring opinion, there is Tal Bachman's series in steynonline.com:

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120 posted on 07/16/2026 12:24:42 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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