Day 146: A Page Printed by Skaryna
At the Museum of Book Printing in Polotsk, a curator shows a visiting typographer a page printed by Francysk Skaryna in the sixteenth century.
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Dialogue
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A
Подойдите ближе, только стекло не трогайте. Перед вами лист, напечатанный Франциском Скориной в Праге в тысяча пятьсот семнадцатом году.
Come closer, only don't touch the glass. Before you is a leaf printed by Francysk Skaryna in Prague in fifteen seventeen.
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B
Ничего себе. Пятьсот лет прошло, а буквы ровные, будто вчера из типографии.
Wow. Five hundred years have gone by, and the letters are as even as if they'd come off the press yesterday.
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Отнюдь не вчера, но мастерство, согласитесь, не стареет. Скорина сам следил за каждой буквой, ибо книга была делом его жизни.
Hardly yesterday, but craftsmanship, you'll agree, doesn't age. Skaryna watched over every letter himself, for books were his life's work.
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B
Я как раз шрифтами занимаюсь, только для экранов. Смотрю на эти буквы и понимаю: ничего нового мы не придумали.
Type is exactly what I do, only for screens. I look at these letters and realise: we haven't invented anything new.
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A
Приятно слышать это от специалиста. Впрочем, скажите честно: кому сегодня нужны бумажные книги, если всё есть в телефоне?
It's pleasant to hear that from an expert. But tell me honestly: who needs paper books today, when everything is on your phone?
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B
Как ни странно, мне. Экран я выключаю и забываю, а книгу, изданную с любовью, хочется держать в руках.
Strangely enough, I do. I switch off a screen and forget it, but a book that's been published with love, you want to hold in your hands.
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Вот и Скорина писал, что печатает «людям посполитым к доброму научению», то есть простым людям, а не только учёным.
That's just what Skaryna wrote, that he printed "for the common people, for their good instruction", meaning ordinary people, not only scholars.
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B
Получается, он одним из первых сделал знание доступным всем, а интернет, по сути, просто продолжил его дело.
So he was one of the first to make knowledge available to everyone, and the internet has basically just carried on his work.
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Продолжил, но не превзошёл, ибо экран, в отличие от этого листа, через пятьсот лет вряд ли покажут в музее.
Carried on, but not surpassed, for unlike this leaf, a screen is hardly going to be shown in a museum five hundred years from now.
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