[Ads-l] (Request help with German) Joke: Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint

[Chris Waigl]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 6:50 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would translate "freiwilligen" as "amateur", not "volunteer".
>

If this was modern German and we are going only to get the letter of the
meaning across I would agree, but to me "freiwilligen" has a hint of the
meaning that they volunteer for a job that isn't theirs. It's not just that
they are amateurish about it. So I left "volunteer".

I might uppercase Candidates of Medicine - it's someone who aspires to an
academic degree.





>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 9:38 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Requesting help with one additional German citation. Below are
> > translations from DeepL and Google.
> >
> > Here is the link for the DeepL translator which I have found useful:
> > https://www.deepl.com/en/translator
> >
> > Are the metadata and text below correct? Any preference for translation?
> >
> > Date: 1838
> > Book Title: Zur Diätetik der Seele
> > Author: Ernst Freiherrn v. Feuchtersleben
> > Quote Page 95
> > Publisher: Verlag von Carl Armbruster, Wien (Vienna, Austria)
> > Database: Google Books Full View
> >
> > https://books.google.com/books?id=XhBYAAAAcAAJ&q=Druckfehler#v=snippet&
> >
> > [Begin excerpt - check for typos]
> > . . . das sind jene freiwilligen Candidaten der Medizin, die sich in
> > die ganze Krankheitslehre hinein lesen, die sich aus Büchern Recepte
> > verschreiben; zu deren Einem Marcus Herz, der berühmt gewordene Feind
> > alles Schwindels, einmal sagte: Lieber Freund! Sie werden noch einmal
> > an einem Druckfehler sterben!
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > [Begin translated excerpt from DeepL]
> > . . . these are those voluntary candidates of medicine, who read
> > themselves into the whole doctrine of disease, who prescribe
> > themselves recipes from books; to one of whom Marcus Herz, the famous
> > enemy of all fraud, once said: Dear friend! You will die once again
> > from a printing error!
> > [End translated excerpt]
> >
> > [Begin translated excerpt from Google]
> > . . . these are the voluntary medical candidates who read their way
> > into the whole of pathology, who prescribe prescriptions from books;
> > To one of them Marcus Herz, the famous enemy of all fraud, once said:
> > Dear friend! You'll die from a misprint all over again!
> > [End translated excerpt]
> >
> > With appreciation
> > Garson
> >
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