Ang sabi mo pula ang paborito mo.
Ang sabi ko puti ang paborito ko.
Kagabi nang tayong dalawa'y nagkita,
nakapula ako at nakaputi ka.
KUNDIMAN
What you said was red is a favorite of yours.
What I said is white was a favorite of mine.
When the two of us saw each other last night,
I dressed in red and you wore white.
(translated from the Tagalog by Paolo Javier)
2 comments:
Wrong po translation!!!!
You told me red is your favorite,
I told you white is my favorite,
When we met last night,
You were dressed in white,
I was dressed in red.
No, the published translation is superior to the one on this comment, which loses the "two-ness" of the third line, assumes the "me" from the first two, gets the order of colors wrong, and overall loses the poetry. It certainly is not "wrong."
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