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The fact that you have to have this conversation strongly implies that the notion of an accurate translation is, no surprise, already heavily strained; you've s
by naniwaduni 3y ago
The fact that you have to have this conversation strongly implies that the notion of an accurate translation is, no surprise, already heavily strained; you've simply chosen to aim for/accept "most accurate possible translation" as the best you can do, while punting on choice of distance metric and its scale.
- bugglebeetle 3y ago…or simply that words don’t have universal meanings, but general ones that vary by use and context.
- naniwaduni 3y agoCorrect. The enumerable configurations of expressible shades of meaning are pretty sparse, and don't line up well between languages.
- bugglebeetle 3y ago…which means “accurate translation” has different meanings relative to the languages you’re referring to, as I first pointed out.