Michael Everson wrote:
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> At 20:33 -0400 2004-07-30, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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> > > I have a bilingual Qur'an, with the Arabic text on one side and the
> >> Mandenkan text in N'Ko script on the other.
> >
> >The "Mandenkan" is not a translation, it's an interpretation. See any
> >published English version prepared by a Muslim.
>
> Any translation of any text is a translation.
The Qur'an is by definition untranslatable and inimitable.
Next you'll be mocking belief in transsubstantiation.
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Peter T. Daniels
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