この週末、英語で稽古会をやんなきゃいけない。
秋からは稽古のために長期滞在する人もやってくる。
ちょっと自分の英語をなんとかしなきゃならない状況だ。
整体操法という単語を機械翻訳にかけたら、physical manipulationという訳語が出てきてびっくりしたことがある。たしかに、操法の操にはあやつるという意味があるからして、manipulationという単語が選ばれても不思議ではないのだが、感応法としての操法を目指している者からすると違和感しかなかった。非操作的操法という言葉自体、字義矛盾を抱えていたということになる。
晴風学舎のWebページにいくと、最初に、晴風学舎宣言とも呼べる格調高い文章が現れる。では、これはどのように英語化されうるのか。当然のことだけど、なかなかむずかしい。まず、この文章を機械翻訳（いずれも無料版）にかけて、どのような英語が現れるかみてみよう。
【原文】
一般社団法人晴風学舎は、「身の学」を基軸とし、人間の生を身体を通して探究することを目的とした体育団体です。感覚と運動の関係を重視し、身体を単なる生理的存在としてではなく、思考や文化を生み出す根源的な場として捉え直すことで、新たな「生の知」の創出を目指します。身体文化学・身体教育学・稽古文化学などの学際的観点から、日常的な動作・芸術的所作・呼吸・言葉など、身体の働きの裡にある理を捉えるための相互教育および稽古法の創造と共有の場を開拓することを通じて、広く人間の創造的生を支えるための文化的基盤の形成を図ります。
【Google翻訳】
Seifu Gakusha, a general incorporated association, is a physical education organization that focuses on "the study of the body" and aims to explore human life through the body. Emphasizing the relationship between sensation and movement, we aim to create a new "knowledge of life" by re-examining the body not merely as a physiological entity, but as a fundamental space for generating thought and culture. From interdisciplinary perspectives such as body culture studies, body education studies, and training culture studies, we aim to form a cultural foundation that broadly supports human creative life by developing a space for mutual education and the creation and sharing of training methods to grasp the principles underlying bodily functions such as everyday movements, artistic gestures, breathing, and language.
【DeepL翻訳】
The Seifu Gakusha General Incorporated Association is a physical education organization centered on the concept of “the study of the self,” with the aim of exploring human existence through the body. By emphasizing the relationship between sensation and movement, and by re-conceptualizing the body not merely as a physiological entity but as a fundamental source of thought and culture, we aim to create a new “knowledge of life.”Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives such as the study of bodily culture, physical education, and the study of training culture, we seek to establish a cultural foundation that broadly supports human creative life. We do this by pioneering spaces for mutual education and the creation and sharing of training methods designed to grasp the underlying principles of bodily functions—including everyday movements, artistic gestures, breathing, and language.
【ChatGPT】
The General Incorporated Association Seifu Gakusha is a physical education organization dedicated to exploring human life through the body, grounded in the principle of “learning through the body.” Emphasizing the relationship between sensation and movement, it seeks to reconceptualize the body not merely as a physiological entity, but as a fundamental site from which thought and culture emerge, thereby aiming to generate new forms of “knowledge of living.” From interdisciplinary perspectives—including body culture studies, physical education, and the study of training culture—it endeavors to cultivate and share methods of mutual learning and practice. These efforts focus on grasping the underlying principles within bodily functions, such as everyday movements, artistic gestures, breathing, and language. Through this, the organization aims to establish a cultural foundation that broadly supports the creative life of human beings.
