and other synonyms: in the trail/swirl/ripple/stir/flurry of…depending of course on the context

Normand, Walmart uses the word “rollback” in its advertising as a kind of double meaning. A Walmart rollback is a price reduction back from what they imply is their usual and fair price. I think they use rollback instead of reduction to connote earlier times when their prices were lower, as if you could return to an earlier and “better” time by shopping at their store. This Heavenletter uses this same connotation by specifically stating we cannot go back in time. The word “rollback” in this context has at least double meaning. This would be tough to translate for people not familiar with Walmart’s recent advertising campaign.

“Roll with the punches” is a little easier. I think it is mostly an American idiom, but I am not sure. To roll with the punch in boxing is to give way to a punch you know you are about to receive anyway, and not resist it. I think the theory behind this advice is that not resisting and “rolling” lessens the damage of the blow. You can see this sort of advice working if you visualize being thrown from a horse and you ball up and roll as you hit the ground rather than trying to brace yourself with rigid limbs as you hit the ground. Either way, rolling with the punch is a metaphor for just accepting and making the best of a bad situation.

The other expression is: "It can't go back and change the ticket on a day that has already rolled by."

How is Wal-mart doing that? Basically Wal-Mart still sells at lower price than competitors but how does this calculation of price ticket is done? Could you give me a simple example?

There may be those who have even hardened their hearts to Me over events far greater than the little scenario you are excruciating over now. Far greater, and, yet, even so, that restriction of your heart has no merit. You, perhaps, may have asked Me to stem the tide, and your will is not done. Dear ones, it is possible that the tide followed its own natural bent before you even asked, for time cannot be marked in Heaven. Only Eternity in Heaven.

Walmart has rollbacks, but even Walmart can only change a price ticket today. It can't go back and change the ticket on a day that has already rolled by. It is necessary in life that you roll with the punches. You can do that now where time is measured on Earth.

Miracles abound, and yet patterns in the relative world have been set in motion. You do not really want Me to be in the mainstream of the relative world, buoyed by waves. It is not that My mind has been made up, and yet you wouldn't want Me to be changing My mind all the time, not even for you, for what else might be left in the wake of what you want?

Beloved Normand, so I gather that Walmart is not well-known in Europe. It is a very famous chain here in the U.S. They have a reputation of having lower prices than their competitors. This may be so. And they offer what they call rollbacks -- in other words, a marked down price. I hope I'm not going out on a limb here, but if Walmart has no meaning to most people in Europe, do you think you could feel right to say chain store instead of Walmart? And is price reduction a more understandable expression than mark down?

A store can lower its prices today, but they can't go back in time and lower them back then. In that sense, we can't go back in time and change the past. We can only change now. When we roll with the punches, we don't get hurt so much. When stunt men in a movie fall down a flight of stairs, for instance, they roll down the stairs and spare themselves injury.

It is so easy to see how conscientious translators are. You clearly want to stay as close to the original as possible and yet you want the translation to make sense to your readers.

I remember when I was in 8th grade and started to learn French. In my innocence, I thought another language would be just like English except it would have different words! I didn't know that words would take different positions in a sentence. I hadn't known that idioms would be different etc. In French, every noun has gender. In English, not so. I understand that there are languages that have no plurals and no pronouns. Language is so amazing.

It is inescapable that a Godwriter is going to have what he or she hears come in their own language. I think I mentioned someone I knew who was from Israel who also heard messages from God. She heard them in Hebrew and spoke them on a tape recorder. But then she translated them into English because she wanted God's words to be published in English. Later, she decided -- I believe it was she who decided -- to hear God in English rather than Hebrew and not have to translate. She did start hearing God in English!

More and more, it seems to me, translators and others will help each other on this forum. We all do the best we can. I think there is something powerful in our trying to express what we understand God to mean. We are learning together.

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