[OPE-L:2019] Re: quote: translation failure?

Allin Cottrell (cottrell@wfu.edu)
Sun, 28 Apr 1996 19:26:09 -0700

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On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Paul Zarembka wrote:

> "But the past labour that is embodied in the labour-labor, and the living
> labor that it can call into action; the daily cost of maintaining it, and
> its daily expenditure in work, are two totally different things."

It makes a heck of a lot more sense to me. This is not the only case
where the older translation, IMO, reads better than the new.

Allin Cottrell.