Daniele Besomi wrote: "While I would agree that one ought to consider one's own opportunity costs in deciding whether to read a text in its original language rather than in translation, I would point out that costs, in terms of scholarship, are too easily underestimated." Did he mean to write, "the costs, ..., are too easily OVERestimated"? Anyhow, I agree that meanings often can be lost in translation, and there surely are benefits to reading a text in its original language. James Ahiakpor