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- Truth About Translation
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- is the free Shareware version
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- of Truth About Translation
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- Enhanced Version
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-
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- Both programs are
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- Copyright (c) 1995 and 1996
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- By Alexander Gross.
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- NOTE: This program
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- lasts about 45 minutes.
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- But you don't have
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- to watch it all at once.
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- The file INSTALL.DOC
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- tells you how to watch it
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- one section at a time.
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- Each section lasts
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- from 5 to 10 minutes.
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- You can also print out
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- the whole text
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- from the file
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- ALLTEXT.ASC
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- or view this file
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- at your leisure
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- inside your word processor.
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- The following program
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- is about translating
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- and interpreting
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- foreign languages. It
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- assumes that this subject
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- may be somewhat
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- unfamiliar to at
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- least some viewers.
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- Many people suppose
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- translation is a simple
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- process of substituting
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- one word for another so
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- that both languages
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- match up perfectly.
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- But matters are
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- rarely this simple.
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- Two languages may in
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- fact say "the same thing"
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- in very different ways.
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-
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- In some cases, they
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- may not, strictly speaking,
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- be saying "the
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- same thing" at all.
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- This means that trans-
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- lators and interpreters
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- must often exercise a
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- high degree of personal
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- judgment in their work.
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- It means that translation
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- is often not so much
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- a science as an art.
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- This is why no two
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- translators are ever
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- likely to produce exactly
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- the same translation
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- of the same written text.
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- And why no two interpreters,
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- who work with spoken language,
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- will say precisely the
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- very same words.
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- Contrary to the
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- expectation of some
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- computer experts, language
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- does not readily lend itself
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- to predictable regularity.
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- This is the chief reason
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- why "machine translation"
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- has so far proved
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- relatively unsuccessful.
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- Some believe computers
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- can never handle the
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- kind of language we
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- use every day.
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- What follows will
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- show you some
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- of the reasons
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- why this may be so.
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- You will see comments
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- about translation spanning
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- the last 2,500 years.
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- You will find hilarious
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- examples of poor translation
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- by both man and computer.
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- And you will encounter some
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- novel ideas about language.
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- If you enjoy this
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- abridged version of
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- "Truth About Translation,"
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- you may wish to obtain
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- the full program. You
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- may do so by reading
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- the files README.1ST
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- or ORDER.DOC.
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