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

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Excellent. Thanks Dan and Chris. I will adopt the suggestions and
acknowledge you. I will also state that the responsibility for all
errors is mine.

I will use "Freiherr" as suggested. Wikipedia also lists "Freiherr".
Oddly, "Freiherrn" appears on the title page of the 1839 edition of
the book. See here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=VPhbAAAAcAAJ&q
The 1838 edition uses the abbreviation "Freih." It's confusing.

DeepL and Google render “Zur Diätetik der Seele” as “On the Dietetics
of the Soul”. An 1852 English translation gives “The Dietetics of the
Soul”.
https://books.google.com/books?id=GiYCAAAAQAAJ&

Garson

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 11:08 PM Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 6:50 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
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>
>
>
>
> >
> > 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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