Thanks very much. I think Gidilmemis Yol ( with the shey, of course ) gives the best sense of it. I thought using alanmak or tutulmak was probably wrong and I was thinking about Secilmek but that didn't seem to be very idiomatic. I think I like gidilmek here. ( it's actually going to be the title line of an email to an old girfriend - Amerikali but Turkce konusan - I haven't seen in 25 years ;-)
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>>There is a famous American poem by Robert Frost called "The Road not Taken" ( meaning, the choice in life that was not chosen ) I think it may be well known in translation. I would like the Turkish translation of the title only, please. ( "Yol alanmamiş" ( is that the passive? ) doesn't seem to be right )
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>Charles,
>An exact translation sounds hard to me. It's not a well known one. The opposite "The Road Taken" would be much easier (wish you asked that:).
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>The Road Taken: Secilen yol - Gidilen yol (in problem solving we often use "if you take this road" - "eger bu yoldan gidersen")
>The Road not Taken: Secilmeyen yol - Secilmemis - Gidilmemis yol
>A full sentence might have a better translation. For example:
>... It was a road not taken in my life: O hayatimda secmedigim bir yoldu.
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>Anyway if you need it for the title of a book possibly the best translation is "Gidilmemis Yol".
>Take care
>Cetin
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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