Iran says cheap "Made in China" Qurans full of typos

[minionofmidas]

Not saying this has any connection, but don't Muslims not accept Kirans written in any other language?like they don't believe the Korans found in US hotel rooms are legitimate.

Koran is legitimate in it's original form: Arabic. Translations are, of course, allowed but just for, let's say, academic purposes.

Or for beginners who haven't even converted yet.

[minionofmidas]

The Arabic original is the original message of God to the World through Mohammed, word for word. A translation is just a translation of God's word, and it is impossible to create a translation that is not also interpretation to at least some degree.
The difference between the Koran and the Bible being, of course, that the Koran was collated within 15 years or so of Mohammed's death, while the Bible is an extraordinary hodgepodge of writings spanning a millennium (though, of course, some surahs make it very clear that Mohammad or God had read parts of the Bible). Much of the distinction gets lost if you let everybody use their own translation.

[minionofmidas]

Must I remember than in some radical Catholic dissents, the bible and the mass are in Latin and can't be translated?

The latin bible is a translation, of course...

 

[minionofmidas]

Must I remember than in some radical Catholic dissents, the bible and the mass are in Latin and can't be translated?

The latin bible is a translation, of course...

 

yes, the idea was the Vulgate was specially inspired as a translation in a way that didn't exist for the common tongues of Western Europe.  

Ah, so Hieronymus' mistakes were really corrections, thanks to divine inspiration?
Of course, the Vatican now (since 1979) peddles an official correct Latin translation, the Nova Vulgata, which preserves the Vulgata's literary style but not the howlers.