Still I Rise Word by Word (Excel)

“Change your language and you change your thoughts.”
Karl Albrecht

Beerelli Seshi, M.D.

German
1 “Does“, “you”, “You may”, “as a”, “of”, “that’s” and “gave”- Translation of these words in German in this context is not necessary because of the language structure, which is different from English.

French
2“You may write me” translated as “Vous pouvez me” which means “You can put me”, “write” translation is no longer needed
3 “twisted”, “very”, “still”, “Does”, “Pumping”, “like”, “Still”, “Did”, “and”, “soulful”, “Diggin’”, “own”, “your”, “You may” “still”, “Does”, “come”, “a”, “the”, “that’s”, “gave”, “by”, “extend an” and “if” – Translation of these words in French in this context is not necessary because of the language structure, which is different from English.
Below are some of the words with explanation.

twisted : Because a lie isn’t twisted in FR, I could find a similar adjective… but for the reason explained before, adding an adjective here would have made the sentence heavy, non natural… Not good for the flow of the poem.
Pumping : Here is the revers translation: Because I walk like I’ve got oil wells in my living room.
Putting « Because I walk like I’ve got oil wells pumping in my living room » would be « comme si j’avais des puits de pétrole en train de pomper dans mon salon ». The « Ing » structure doesn’t exist in FR, in Spanish, they have the « ando » whish is similar, the Italian translator chose to put « which pump ». But in FR: « come si j’avais des puits de pétrole en train de pomper dans mon salon » or « come si j’avais des puits de pétrole qui pompent dans mon salon », is heavy, and not poetic at all. The fact is, the pomp oils are obviously pumping, so it may be important to say it in English, but in French it looks bad.
very : The “very dirt”… can’t be translated in FR, adding « deep in » just goes against the poetic flow.
still :– still: Here, I had to make a choice, « But still » was impossible. I personally thought « but » was important, and in order to keep it « still » had to be removed because you can’t say « Mais quand même comme…”
You cannot translate French word by word literally, it will sounds machine translated.

Spanish
4 “Does”, “I”, “Just”, “Did”, “you”, “Does it”, “of”, “that’s” and “the”- Translation of these words in Spanish in this context is not necessary because of the language structure, which is different from English.

Italian
5 “write me down” is translated as “”svalutarmi” which means “devalue”
6“very dirt” is translated as “”fango” which means “mud”, because this word is commonly used as a metaphor of being in a condition for which one is humiliated and offended.
7 “Does”, “I”, “down”, “you”, “own”, “the”, “that’s”, “a” and “an”- Translation of these words in Italian in this context is not necessary because of the language structure, which is different from English.
8 “Accolgo” means “I welcome”.

Latin
9 “I”, “You may”, “down”, “the”, “I’ll”, “by”, “Does”, “are you”, “with”, ”I’ve”, “of”, “Did you”, “to”, “you”, “Does it”, “a”, “of the”, “behind”, ”is a”, “to a”, “an”, “to the” and “will be”- Translation of these words in Latin in this context is not necessary because of the language structure, which is different from English

Words like ‘very’ (as ‘in the very dirt’} are expressed by an intensive pronoun in agreement with the substantive that it modifies. So Maya Angelou’s ‘in the very dirt’ I render as ‘in ipso caeno’ (lit., ‘in the dirt itself’).
Words like ‘down’ in ‘write me down’ are expressed by prefixes, not usually by separate words. Hence, citing Maya Angelou again, ‘You may write me down in history’ I render’ ‘Describas me in historia’, where the Latin prefix ‘de-‘ in ‘describas’ means ‘down’
Latin has no words for ‘an’ or ‘the’. The meaning of the prepositions ‘to’ and ‘of” is expressed, as normally, by the endings of the words concerned.

Greek
10 “very”, “Does”, “with”, “like”, “Did”, “you”, “own”, “Does it come” and “in” – Translation of these words in Greek in this context is not necessary because of the language structure, which is different from English.

In Greek, semicolon does not exist.
In Greek, semicolon obliterated and is replaced by either comma or full stop.
Semicolon mark (;) in Greek in fact represents question mark (?) in English.
Other punctuation marks like colon ( : ), exclamation mark ( ! ), full stop ( . ) and comma ( , ) are the same between English and Greek.

Still I Rise
Multilanguaging Wordbook

By Maya Angelou (1978)

Still I RiseMultilanguaging Wordbook

By Maya Angelou (1978)

Still I Rise
Multilanguaging Wordbook