Tokyo man responds to saddle theft ... by stealing 150+ himself

Sriracha wrote:

Actually a more faithful translation reads, "I wanted other people to feel what had gone through me..."

Depends on your approach to translation - do you translate the words, or the intended meaning. That may be a more accurate direct correspondence in English (I don't know), but it also sounds odd. If Japanese also has a more direct equivalent of "what I went through" but he deliberately chose to say "what went through me", then that's different. On an abstract level though, the idea of an emotion or state of mind passing through you rather than the other way round is quite appealing - like it's blowing in the wind, rather than our version, which is something to conquer. Sorry, I digress. What sort of saddle was it?        

quiff wrote:

Sriracha wrote:

Actually a more faithful translation reads, "I wanted other people to feel what had gone through me..."

Depends on your approach to translation - do you translate the words, or the intended meaning. That may be a more accurate direct correspondence in English (I don't know), but it also sounds odd. If Japanese also has a more direct equivalent of "what I went through" but he deliberately chose to say "what went through me", then that's different. On an abstract level though, the idea of an emotion or state of mind passing through you rather than the other way round is quite appealing - like it's blowing in the wind, rather than our version, which is something to conquer. Sorry, I digress. What sort of saddle was it?        

Um, clearly my attempt at humour has failed. Never mind.

Sriracha wrote:

quiff wrote:

Sriracha wrote:

Actually a more faithful translation reads, "I wanted other people to feel what had gone through me..."

Depends on your approach to translation - do you translate the words, or the intended meaning. That may be a more accurate direct correspondence in English (I don't know), but it also sounds odd. If Japanese also has a more direct equivalent of "what I went through" but he deliberately chose to say "what went through me", then that's different. On an abstract level though, the idea of an emotion or state of mind passing through you rather than the other way round is quite appealing - like it's blowing in the wind, rather than our version, which is something to conquer. Sorry, I digress. What sort of saddle was it?        

Um, clearly my attempt at humour has failed. Never mind.

Not completely 

hawkinspeter wrote:

I'm glad they caught him. For a while, the bicycle police said they had nothing to go on.

And they say the perp's family refused to raise his bail. He had to stump up himself in the end.

Sriracha wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

I'm glad they caught him. For a while, the bicycle police said they had nothing to go on.

And they say the perp's family refused to raise his bail. He had to stump up himself in the end.

The victims were over Lee cranky and not well rested.

Loving inefficiency here during windward.