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

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      You'll see some more
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    quotations in a minute.
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        But perhaps you
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    have already noticed...
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       Certain themes and
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      certain ideas about
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        translation keep
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      coming back through
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       all of history...
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      People are confused
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       by the whole idea
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       of translation...
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       First of all, they
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   don't see why translation
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   should really present any
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      kind of a problem...
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       AFTER ALL, Reality
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   is the same everywhere...
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          ISN'T IT???
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     All you have to do is
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      substitute one word
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         for another...
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           RIGHT...?
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       But of course the
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      problem is that both
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    "Reality" and the words
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   people use to describe it
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      CAN ACTUALLY CHANGE
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       from one language
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          to another.
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       Some people, even
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   including some scientists,
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      find this idea hard
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         to deal with.
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        But that's only
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       the first problem
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        some people have
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       with translation.
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    As the quotations show,
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      a lot of people also
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       have problems when
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    the translation doesn't
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       match up perfectly
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    with the original text.
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   They feel the translation
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        must be at fault
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       when this happens.
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        They criticize a
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     translation when it is
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   "too literal and clumsy."
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    But they also criticize
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    a translation when it is
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   "too free and unfaithful."
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      They want to have it
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         "just right."
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       Sometimes it seems
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     as if they can't make
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        up their minds.
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     They keep insisting on
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      something that can't
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      exist--because what
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        is "just right"
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      for one audience may
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      not be for another.
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       Sometimes it seems
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       as if these people
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        are simply angry
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      at language for not
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     always being the same.
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     Or angry at "reality"
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     for not always finding
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      the same expressions
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       in all languages.
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     It could be that what
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     we are looking at here
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      has more to do with
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     human psychology than
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     it does with language.
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      Over and over again
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     through the centuries,
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     people voice the same
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    problems and confusions.
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     Instead of calling it
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     a "language problem,"
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        let's call it a
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   "people problem" instead.
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        You've heard of
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     "culture shock"--let's
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         call this one
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      "language shock" or
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     "translation shock"...
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       Perhaps this will
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        give us a better
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     understanding of what
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      is really going on.
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      And now let's return
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      to our quotations...
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   In 1899 the American poet
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      Sidney Lanier wrote
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    that any idea, as idea,
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      can be expressed in
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     English.  This notion
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       should perhaps be
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      contrasted with the
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     next three quotations:
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          ...an idea
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         does not pass
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       from one language
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           to another
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        without change.
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   --Miguel de Unamuno, 1921
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     ...all languages share
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    in a common myopia; none
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    can articulate the whole
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    truth...Translators are
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      men groping towards
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         each other in
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         a common mist.
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     --George Steiner, 1975
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        The sum of human
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    wisdom is not contained
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      in any one language,
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     and no single language
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    is CAPABLE of expressing
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     all forms and degrees
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    of human comprehension.
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       --Ezra Pound, 1934
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           And now we
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             return
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          to a purely
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       historical order...
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            There is
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         no translation
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     except a word-for-word
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          translation.
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      --George Moore, 1886
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      Anglo-Irish Novelist
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        The only tribute
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      a French translator
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      can pay Shakespeare
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           is not to
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         translate him.
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      --Max Beerbohm, 1899
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       ...translation is
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      sin...meddling with
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     inspiration, blasphemy
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    against the Holy Ghost.
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    --Grant Showerman, 1916
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     Historian & Classicist
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      Every word should be
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   represented somehow in the
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   translation, except where
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     the omission of a word
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      improves the English
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       and takes nothing
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       from the meaning.
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    --Alexander Souter, 1920
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Lexicographer & Biblical Scholar
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    A Dane wrote a 700 word
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       sketch.  This was
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    translated successively
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     into Swedish, German,
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      English, French, and
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     then back into Danish.
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     The final product was
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        unrecognizable.
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       --Anonymous, 1927
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      (an experiment with
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       similar results is
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       described by Vinay
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        and Darbelnet in
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         "Linguistique
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       Comparée," 1958).
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         Reading poetry
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         in translation
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            is like
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        kissing a woman
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    through a handkerchief.
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  --Chaim Nachman Bialik, 1928
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     Acclaimed Hebrew Poet
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        Professor Murray
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     has simply interposed
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       between Euripides
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         and ourselves
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         a barrier more
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       impenetrable than
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      the Greek language.
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      --T. S. Eliot, 1920
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   (about Gilbert Murray as a
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   translator of Greek drama)
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       All translation is
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     a kind of illusion...
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     Those translations are
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      always best in which
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      the illusion is most
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     complete and the idiom
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        least suggestive
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        of translation.
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      --T.F. Higham, 1938
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    Classicist & Anthologist
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          The original
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         is unfaithful
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      to the translation.
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   --Jorge Luis Borges, 1943
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 (on Henley's 1786 translation
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  of Beckford's 1782 "Vathek")
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       The translator is
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     ignored; he is seated
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  in the very furthest place;
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      he lives so to speak
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       only from alms; he
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     accepts performing the
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   very lowest functions, the
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   most self-effacing roles.
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     --Valéry Larbaud, 1946
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   Translator, Author, Critic
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       Translations (like
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       wives) are seldom
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       strictly faithful
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         if they are in
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     the least attractive.
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      --Roy Campbell, 1949
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       Our understanding
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       is under the spell
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        of the language
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       which it utilizes.
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     --Leo Weisgerber, 1950
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Linguist and Language Historian
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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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