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Translation
The process of converting text from one language to another. Translation of literary works can be highly challenging and is considered a literary pursuit in its own right.
![新世界より [Shinsekai Yori] by Yusuke Kishi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1356897905l/7171561._SY160_.jpg "新世界より [Shinsekai Yori] by Yusuke Kishi")
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Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I typed them? We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe.
And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds managed to touch, if but briefly and i
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― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; and reading Greek poems, with a mixture of katharevousa and the demotic, is like kissing two women. Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator move
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― Fugitive Pieces
― Fugitive Pieces
A place to discuss all the unique aspects of Deaf culture as highlighted in the thriller Silent …more
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This group is for translators and authors who are interested in making good works of literature …more
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Our goal is to give you the skills today that are nec…more
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Join us on Tuesday, August 27th for a special discussion with author Oliver Pötzsch! Oliver will…more
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