Last year, I blogged about a gentleman sharing with me a Hebrew translation of one of Reed's poems. I was attempting to parse the characters back into a webpage, right to left, by hand. I failed miserably!
How do I know this? Because here is Henry Reed's "Judging Distances," translated into Hebrew by the artist, architect, and town planner, Nahoum Cohen.
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Language Distances
tfeL ot thgiRI've been corresponding with a gentleman in Israel who has taken great care to translate Reed's poem "Judging Distances" into Hebrew. An audacious undertaking!
Having only a tenuous grasp of English myself, and no familiarity with the Semitic languages, I'm attempting to reverse-engineer the HTML generated from a Word document. Right-to-left reading is the least of my problems, and the commas are driving me crazy. Perhaps I may never get the knack. לא רק באיזה מרחק, הדרך בה אומרים את זה חשובה מאד. אולי לעולם לא תשלטו בשיטת אומדן מרחקים, אך לפחות תדעו איך לדווח צורות נוף: הגזרה המרכזית, מימין לקשת, ומה שהיה לנו ביום שלישי שעבר, ולפחות בסוף תדעו
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