Not P but Moby-Dick (23)

[Mike Jing]

OK, so one of them got it right. Thanks, Mark and Michael.


On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 5:10 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pines often don't ive when transplanted to any other soil....surviving is
> hard....
>
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 1:33 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Even more from Chapter 40:
>>
>> How the three pines shake! Pines are the hardest sort of tree to live when
>> shifted to any other soil, and here there’s none but the crew’s cursed
>> clay.
>>
>> Four of the five previous translations I have at hand interpreted this as
>> "pine can live in any sort of soil", which doesn't seem right to me. It
>> seems that they have confused "hardest" with the word "hardy", or am I
>> missing something here?
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