Contact Report 125

Billy Meier Translations ©Benjamin Stevens

In the progress of construction of Saalome, we are very honored to have a support&permission from Benjamin Stevens, who allow us to use&copy his English translations and other materials on https://www.billymeiertranslations.com.
在Saalome的建设过程中，我们非常荣幸地得到了Benjamin Stevens（先生）的支持，允许我们使用&拷贝他在https://www.billymeiertranslations.com上的英译本和其它素材。

We are very respect and appreciate Benjamin Stevens’s tremendous contribution to this GREAT mission, and are very cherish his English translations, which should be well preserved!.
我们非常尊重和感激Benjamin Stevens（先生）在这一伟大【任务/使命】中所做出的巨大贡献，并十分珍视他的英译本，且这些英译本应该得到很好的保留！

There is no doubt that these English translations are FOOTSTONE of FIGU English information, precisely from which the updating work of English translations, which can now be found on FOM (http://www.futureofmankind.co.uk), can carry out at a very high starting level, and this should be thanks to the great efforts of Benjamin Stevens and other excellent English translators.
毫无疑问，这些英译本是FIGU英文资讯的基石，正是源于它们，英文世界里的译文更新工作才能在一个很高的起点上开展，这应该感谢Benjamin Stevens和其他优秀的英文译者的伟大付出。

Thanks to Benjamin Stevens!
感谢Benjamin Stevens！

Thanks to all those who involved in this GREAT mission!
感谢所有参与到这一伟大【任务/使命】中来的伙伴！

Salome.
Salome.

• Tuesday, December 11, 1979, 12:34 PM

Translator’s Note:
I had some difficulty in deciding how to translate the German meanings of many of the names, primarily because of the limitations of the English language. While a German-speaking person would readily know that a meaning which begins with the masculine definite article “der" must necessarily apply to a man, and a meaning that begins with the feminine definite article “die" must necessarily apply to a woman, an English-speaking person cannot readily tell this by reading “the," which is the standard way of translating both German articles since English has no masculine or feminine definite article. In order to resolve this difficulty, I chose many times to insert the phrase “man who is a" or “woman who is a," so that the English-speaking person would readily know to what gender the name should be applied, if he or she saw the meaning isolated from the list or within another context. So for instance, where “Der Geschichtsschreiber" could simply be translated as “The History Writer," I chose to translate it as “The Man Who is a History Writer." This way, the English-speaking person knows that the respective name must be applied to a man, in the same way that the German-speaking person already knows this from reading “der." Also, many times where the word “one" would normally be used in the translation of a meaning of a name, in order to designate the individual to whom it applies, I chose to substitute it with “man" or “woman," again so that the English-speaking person would be on par with the German-speaking person, who already knows the applicable gender because of the article. Moreover, in German, “in" is often added to the end of a noun that designates a person’s position, in order to make it applicable to a woman, in the same way that “ess" is often added to such in English, in order to do the same, such as in the case of “Hüter / Hüterin" = “Guardian / Guardianess." In many cases where the “in" can be added in German, it would not sound right in English if the “ess" would simply be added to the respective English noun, so I had to avoid trying to do so altogether and had to come up with a different way of conveying the meaning. As much as possible, I tried to use the “ess" approach, as long as the English words found general use among English speakers, though such words might not presently appear in English dictionaries. Nevertheless, English itself is an expanding language, and the more that people use such words, which should readily make sense to those who are already masters of the English language, the more that such words will be added to the dictionaries in the future.