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Title: Anyone the translation to the REAL Silent Night words Post by: BlueAquaOcean on February 28, 2016, 10:16PM So the version CW are lyrics by Enya or someone else... has anyone sang an Irish translation to the actual words
Title: Re: Anyone the translation to the REAL Silent Night words Post by: Emer Dreamer on February 29, 2016, 05:11AM The original lyrics to Silent Night were written by a German poet about ( Mohr) about 200 years ago. It has , since, been translated into many languages including Irish and English. Meav has sung Silent Night 3 ways: All in Irish in her Celtic Journey, All in English in HFC, and part Irish,part English in ACC. I hope this clears it up for you. :)
Title: Re: Anyone the translation to the REAL Silent Night words Post by: ShiningBright on February 29, 2016, 06:11AM When a song is translated into another language, some words and sentences cannot be translated directly, because they have to fit into the rhyme scheme, rythm or simply the stylistically suitable choice of words. While English and German are very similar in lenght of words, etc., but Irish is much different from either language. I assume the song was translated from German into Irish, which could make it different from the translation into English. There might also be (a) translation(s) based on the English translation, so that could make differences again.
By the way, while the language is German, it is an Austrian song. But many countries claim it as their own, really. People think it's German, American, anything really as long it's theirs ;D Title: Re: Anyone the translation to the REAL Silent Night words Post by: Kevin R.I. on August 07, 2016, 05:16PM I used to work with someone who was married to a German lady....I met her once....she said that Austrians were "lazy Germans" ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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