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The original is unfaithful to the translation.


Jorge Luis Borges


#translation #unfaithful

it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all.


Henry Gratton Doyle


#don-quixote #great-novels-in-translation #the-art-of-translation #translation #translations

A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of trying to convey meaning from one code to the other. The transfer is never safe, the meaning changes in the channel — becomes tinted, adulterated, absurd, stronger.


Elena Mauli Shapiro


#language #meaning #translation #change

Changing words isn't so hard. Recognizing a particular sound, swapping it for another - that was easy even for your ancestors. Reading what happens in your head and the heads of all the beings around you, now that is difficult. Finding equivalents in one culture for the basic concepts of another - that is really difficult. I say the word vegetable and the translator tells you something like 'edible moss'. So, yes, it's a miracle, but it's a dangerous miracle. It makes you think you understand beasts and you never do. When it comes down to it, you can't even understand your own species.


Peadar Ó Guilín


#interpreting #lost-in-translation #translations #change

Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Chinese- 'Jonah Wizard Makes Your Ancestors Fat'.


Gordon Korman


#joke #jonah-wizard #mistake #translation #humor

I wouldn’t really know too much about pressure. I stay away from it like snow in the Sahara. That reminds me, isn’t it funny how an adage might get lost in cultural translation? For instance, take the saying, “Don’t eat yellow snow.” Well, try telling that to a Bedouin who’s never left the desert and has never seen pictures of other climates. You might have to rephrase it to, “Never eat yellow sand,” which is sort of silly.


Jarod Kintz


#desert #funny #humor #pressure #surreal

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.


Leonard Cohen


#barely #child #himself #into #language

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.


Havelock Ellis


#arts #beautiful #because #dancing #itself

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.


Yevgeny Yevtushenko


#certainly #faithful #like #most #translation

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.


Marilyn Hacker


#different #different way #equally #how #i






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