>in translating Scripture for people who don't have some of the natural occurences referred to in the histories of Israel and such, they have to use adaptive translations like, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as coconut milk."
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..which reminds me of a story I read about an attempt to translate the word "piano" into a Polynesian language. The end result was something charming, like, "big-fellow-you-hit-him-in-teeth-make-him-cry"

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