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⇑Applied Translation and Interpreting at University of Strathclyde

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: languages

University website: www.strath.ac.uk

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (not all languages do) between translating (a written text) and interpreting (oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages); under this distinction, translation can begin only after the appearance of writing within a language community.

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Translation

You've often heard me say – perhaps too often – that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.

Robert Frost, A Backward Look, by Louis Untermeyer (1964), p. 18.

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Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Wolf, On Not Knowing Greek

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A good poet is no more like himself in a dull translation than his carcass would be to his living body.

John Dryden, Preface to Sylvae, or the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies (1685).

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