Talk:Second Sunday of Easter

Translation for "quasi modo…" is terrible
The translation for "Quasi modo …" is not just terribly bad, it is wrong. It's the "desire/longing" that is "rational/guileless", not the milk.

See https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Quasi_modo_geniti_infantes_(Heinrich_Isaac) or https://the-american-catholic.com/2017/04/23/quasimodo-sunday/

I've made edits, I've provided sources, I've been reverted. I'm not going to get into an edit war with Jdcompguy over it.

2001:9E8:2B03:2D00:D9F3:B05:FD94:B963 (talk) 19:26, 11 November 2021 (UTC)


 * I'm not reverting you for improving the translation. As I explained in both relevant edit summaries, I'm reverting you because you're replacing the ancient introit with a modern one, which doesn't fit with the context: the introit is being cited after the sentence which reads, "The name Quasimodo came from the incipit of this day's traditional Latin introit." In both your edit attempts, you replaced the traditional introit with the modern one which debuted in 1970, thereby implying that the centuries-old name "Quasimodo" derives from a post-1970 antiphon, which is self-evidently false. There is nothing stopping you from improving the English translation; just don't change the Latin base text in such a way that something inaccurate is being asserted.
 * Of course, when I say there's "nothing stopping you from improving the English translation," I'm assuming for the sake of argument that it actually needs to be improved. Whether or not this is actually the case is a separate issue. In the second opening sentence of your post, you seem to assert that rationabile should be understood as modifying modo, not lac, but the sources that you've cited in defense of this assertion actually assert the contrary, since these sources translate the phrase in question (very loosely) as "pure, spiritual milk [without guile]." Jdcompguy (talk) 22:34, 12 November 2021 (UTC)