Show STAhLE By LARRY STAHLE After a particularly trying day in the classroom two Manti Mantl High School teachers were discussing their hectic lives in the faculty lounge Said one If theres there's anything anything anything any any- thing to this business of re reincarnation reincarnation reincarnation re- re incarnation Id I'd like to come comeback comeback comeback back as a childhood disease One of our old wise residents of the area passed away last week and scarcely a hand full of people knew about The old timer was laid to rest by the Mantl Manti cemetery crew on Tuesday March They didn't even call Wallace Buchanan to report the death The late resident spent many years In the area with much of his time spent at the ManU Mantl Cemetery where he was laid to rest Although he was at the cemetery a great deal of the time only a few people knew about it I learned of the passing just minutes after it took place from froma a ManU Mantl woman who was present present present pres pres- ent when Clarence Hall found the deceased resident I headed for the cemetery immediately upon hearing the news but I arrived about five ve minutes too late to pay my respects to the departed The deceased resident that I Iam Iam Iam am referring to wont won't even be charged perpetual care on his burial spot by the city He spent so many years there that he had squatters rights Our departed friend didn't give a hoot for the hustle and bustle that causes us to run runaround runaround runaround around each day like we had just have our head cut off All who saw him said that he was one of the finest specimens specimens specimens mens they had ever seen He was just about perfect l In very Avery way I doubt that you will be he able to place flowers or a monument monument ment on his grave because frankly I dont don't I know where when the cemetery crew administered th the last rites u Lest st I say more I must re reveal reveal reveal re- re veal that our fallen hero who has emitted so much wisdom during th the past decades was none non other than a wise old owl who called Manti his home Several people I have talked to ut the lh- owl note that thE they have seen sten him at alth the cemetery numerous ti times mes during the past years ars Sanpete h has truly lost on one of its wise old uld residents Growing old is only a state stat of mind nand brought o M by hy gray grayhair grayhair grayhair hair fals fall wrinkles a large l I iy y y short breath and an over all feeling of being constantly and totally pooped If I ever thought that I 1 had problems I should feel better bEUer after an article cle I read this week from the National Geographic Geographic Geographic Geo Geo- graphic Magazine which talks about the many tongues tonguE's into which the Bible has been translated translated translated trans trans- and the problems they are encountering with their current attempts to translate the Bible Into additional languages I decided to print the article so that you will feel better also Here It goes The way of translators Is hard but hundreds of dedicated souls are helping to make the Holy Bible speak In diverse tongues The Bible Bibe already has been translated Into 1473 languages and dialects and linguists around the world are working on new versions the Nation Nation Nation Na Na- tion Geographic Society says South African missionaries and scholars are busy converting converting converting con con- the New Testament Into a curious Bushman dialect called called call call- ed Kung In which clicks of the tongue act as consonant sounds The sounds of Kung are un unwritten unwritten unwritten un- un written and the vocabulary limited but the group Is pushing pushing pushing push push- ing on undaunted by the knowledge knowledge knowledge know know- ledge that translation of the Bible Into the related Nama language took from 1825 to 1967 Missionaries have translated all or parts of the scriptures Into such obscure languages as spoken in Nigeria used by some Guatemalan Guatemalan Guatemalan Guate Guate- malan Indians an Indonesian tongue and Mao Moo Naga an dialect Field translation has Its pit pit- falls A translator In the Solomon Solomon Solomon Solo Solo- mon Islands found that he had rendered the Psalmists Psalmist's phrase the wild asses quench their thirst as the cannibal pigs drink water to stop hiccoughs Mc- Mc coughs A Congo missionary transformed five loaves and two fishes into a veritable feast five loaves and two elephants A missionary among the Indians of Mexico tried to obtain the word for jump by acting it out The Indians chorused an expression which the clergyman happily wrote down only to learn later that It meant What is wrong with you youl youlA A translator thought he was writing nation shall rise up against nation in Eskimo dialect dialect dialect dia dia- lect but a actually lually he lie had written a pair of snows snowshoes hOts hOt's shall rise up against a pal pair r of snowshoes He had made an error of a single letter in a 17 letter 17 17 word Abstract ideas pose even more difficulties The Bulu language language lan lan- guage of oC West Africa has no word for trust or holy and righteousness must be translated by straightness but hut there are ten different kinds of seeing Though they must solve lin linguistic linguistic linguistic lin- lin problems ms modern translators face lesser hazards than their predecessors William William Wil WU- liam Tyndale for example was strangled at the stake as a heretic in 1536 for translating the Bible into everyday English Even the revered King James Version was attacked when It appeared in 1611 I 1 had rather IH he rent In pieces with wild hors horses s than any such translation translation translation trans trans- lation lation- by my consent should be urged d upon poor churches thundered a noted scholar The new edition me I re require require require re- re quire it to b be burnt The scholar is dead the King James s Version lives and current current cur cur- current rent work goes on in the spirit of the King James translators who wrote in their Incomparable style Translation it Is that open- open eth the window to let In the light that the shell that we may eat the kernel that aside the that we Wt may looke Into the most Holy place that the cover of the well that we may come by the water even as Jacob They keep saying they're going to do something about junk mail yet every year those tax income-tax forms show up One drawback to Improved transportation Is that there is no longer such a thing as a distant relative |