Philip Terry is the great re-inventor of poems. He has brought Dante's Inferno, Shakespeare's sonnets and Raymond Queneau's Elementary Morality alive in his wild, systematic reinventions. Gilgamesh is his most daunting and delightful achievement. He has translated the poem into "Globish" and he explains his project: "Translating, or versioning, Gilgamesh using the 1500 word vocabulary of Globish (from the words “global” and “English”) put together by Jean-Paul Nerrière for business purposes, which he considered the world dialect of the third millennium, may look like a peculiar and arbitrary thing to do. There are some powerful and logical reasons underpinning this experiment in translation."
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