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“I shall assume that you, the reader, are learning to translate into your language of habitual use, since that is the only way you can translate naturally, accu
by mjklin 4y ago
“I shall assume that you, the reader, are learning to translate into your language of habitual use, since that is the only way you can translate naturally, accurately and with maximum effectiveness. In fact, however, most translators do translate out of their own language ('service' translation) and contribute greatly to many people's hilarity in the process.” - From “A Textbook of Translation” by Peter Newmark
- mauvehaus 4y agoIronically, this itself reads like a translation. I don't feel like most native English speakers would express this so elaborately or with so many phrases interjected with commas. I am utmostly certain that such phrases, that mark the writing as a refined specimen, go by a proper name of their own. I write at great remove from my most recent grammar lessons, and so their name does not fall easily to hand at this time.
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoThe author in question was born in 1916, and the book appears to be from 1988. I suppose the past truly is a foreign country, even if that past isn't that long ago.
- mauvehaus 4y agoWow. That's maybe 100 years newer than I'dve guessed. It sounds almost Victorian in its phrasing. Before any English folks start sharpening their torches and pitchforks, I speak the bastardized rustic version of your tongue in the USA. Apologies if I can't tell Victorian English from Elizabethan (II) English.