Software of the Month Club 1996 December/Software of the Month Club 1996 December.iso/pc/dos/edu/trutrans/jquote.m32

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        From Translation
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        all science had
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         its offspring.
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        --Giordano Bruno
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 (quoted by John Florio, 1603)
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    ...translating from one
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   language into another...is
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        like gazing at a
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     Flemish tapestry with
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      the wrong side out:
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    even though the figures
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     are visible, they are
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      full of threads that
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      obscure the view and
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       are not bright and
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      smooth as when seen
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      from the other side.
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  --Miguel de Cervantes, 1615
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 That servile path thou nobly
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     dost decline
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 Of tracing word by word, and
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     line by line.
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 These are the labour'd births
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     of slavish brains,
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 Not the effects of Poetry,
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     but pains...
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      --John Denham, 1643
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  Poet, Translator, Playwright
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        If a man should
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     undertake to translate
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     Pindar word for word,
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      it would be thought
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        that one Mad man
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         had translated
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           another...
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     --Abraham Cowley, 1656
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      If Virgil must needs
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     speak English, it were
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     fit he should speak it
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       not only as a man
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       of this Nation but
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     as a man of this Age.
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      --John Denham, 1656
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      The meaning is like
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     the soul of language,
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       and the words are
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     merely like its body.
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        Thus, a totally
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      literal translation
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         is like a body
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        without a soul,
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        because the body
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      is in one language,
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          and the soul
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          in another.
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   --Pierre Coustel, ca. 1679
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      Port-Royal Educator
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   On translating literally:
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     'Tis much like dancing
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     on ropes with fettered
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      legs: a man may shun
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    a fall by using caution;
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      but the gracefulness
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        of motion is not
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        to be expected.
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      --John Dryden, 1680
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 BELINDA: Aye, but you know we
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    must return good for evil.
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 LADY BRUTE: That may be a
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    mistake in the translation.
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   --Sir John Vanbrugh, 1698
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   (The Provok'd Wife, I.i.)
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      My old friend, Mrs.
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       Carter, could make
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      a pudding as well as
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      translate Epictetus.
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     --Samuel Johnson, 1738
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      ...the court lady at
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     Versailles, who said:
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          "What a pity
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         that accident
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    with the Tower of Babel
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   should have got languages
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    all confused--otherwise
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      everyone would have
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     always spoken French."
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        --Voltaire, 1767
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      Not a translation--
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           only taken
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        from the French.
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  --Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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    (The Critic, I.i., 1770)
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   ...a translation perfectly
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      close is impossible
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     because time has sunk
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      the original strict
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      import of a thousand
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        phrases, and we
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         have no means
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       of recovering it.
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     --William Cowper, 1780
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      There is no species
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    of writing so difficult
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      to be translated, as
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    that where the character
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        of the style is
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        florid, and the
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    expression consequently
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         vague, and of
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      indefinite meaning.
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--Alexander Fraser Tytler, 1791
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       When the original
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      merely hints and is
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    obscure, the translator
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      has no right to give
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          the text an
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       arbitrary clarity.
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  --Wilhelm von Humboldt, 1816
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       Every language is
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         an experiment.
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         (Jede Sprache
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       ist ein Versuch.)
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 --Wilhelm von Humboldt, 1820?
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     (cited by G. Steiner)
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       It were as wise to
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      cast a violet into a
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    crucible, that you might
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 discover the formal principle
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     of its color and odor,
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   as seek to transfuse from
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   one language into another
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    the creations of a poet.
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  --Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820
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     ...for say what we may
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      of the inadequacy of
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      translation, yet the
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    work is and will always
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    be one of the weightiest
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   and worthiest undertakings
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    in the general concerns
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         of the world.
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    --J.W. von Goethe, 1827
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    Simple as the operation
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     may appear...the task
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      of translating with
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     perfect exactness the
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     sense of the original
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          is a task of
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      extreme difficulty.
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    --Peter Mark Roget, 1852
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 Author of "Roget's Thesaurus"
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     Throughout the history
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        of civilization,
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   translators have been the
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     agents for propagating
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     knowledge from nation
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       to nation, and the
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     value of their labours
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     has been inestimable.
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    --Peter Mark Roget, 1852
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  Translation and Translators:
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  Quotations Through the Ages
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      From Ancient Sumeria
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      To Molecular Biology
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        will continue in
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           5 seconds.
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