PURA VIDA: Bliss Beyond Translation

IMAGE: A radiant heart with abstract interlinking patterns on the periphery.

Gwen: 	Pura Vida: isn't that a Spanish phrase?

Tara: 	It is, but it is difficult to translate.

Gwen: 	Why? Both words are simple enough.

Tara: 	(shaking her head) Never trust surface translations.


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from Celebrations ah Song: Rejoicing Through Art, Poetry & Narratives with T Newfields
SUMMARY: Some thoughts about translation and semiotics.
KEYWORDS: word meanings, semantics, etymology, philology, semiology

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 2003 in Nagoya, Japan ✶ Finished: 2023 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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TRANSLATIONS

ESPAÑOL   https://www.tnewfields.info/es/p-vida.htm
NIHONGO   https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/puura.htm    
ZHŌNGWÉN  https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/pula.htm