The whole process is fascinating. The author encodes some mental structures into a language, at its lowest level, a sequence of letters. The reader decodes the

The whole process is fascinating. The author encodes some mental structures into a language, at its lowest level, a sequence of letters. The reader decodes the letters into their own mental structures - the whole author reader interaction is very fragile. Enter the translator, he picks the original sequence of characters in the source language, translates them into a sequence of character in destination language so that the reader of that destination language can decode the characters into their personal mental structures. Amazing.