Re: Anachronisms in LOTR

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> Douglas Eckhart wrote:
> > "Bill O'Meally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > "RufusTFirefly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > > 'Tobacco' is never mentioned in 'LotR'.  You might suppose that
> > > 'pipe-weed'
> > > > is tobacco, but you might also be wrong.
> > > Yes it is. Re-read 'Flotsam and Jetsam'. Longbottom leaf is described as
> > > tobacco.
> > Ah, but thats just the modern equivlent term used in the translation.
> > 
> > I have a modern english translation of Tacitus where he talks about 'N.C.O.
> > soldiers'; this way, I know what he is refering to but I also know that he
> > would have used another Latin term to describe them.
> 
> Complain to your translator and apply for a refund. You've spotted a 
> translation bug. In decent translations of historical works readers get 
> to know the terms in the source language, with footnotes explaining 
> modern correspondence.

indeed

translations from russian refer to the cauchy bouniakowsky inequality
with a footnote explainiing it is the cauchy schwartz inequality