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To put the point in a different way, the only truly original text is one that has never been read.
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― The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki, dennis washburn
― The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki, dennis washburn
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Translation is often seen as something that anyone who is fluent in two languages can do; one simply reads a text in the source language and somehow comes up with an equivalent text in the target language. Common misconceptions of translation such as this can go as far as to treat it as an art form, a view that chooses to ignore the fact that art also requires extensive training and deep knowledge of methods and techniques. It only takes a few minutes of trying to translate a text to make one re
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― The Georgetown Guide to Arabic-English Translation
― The Georgetown Guide to Arabic-English Translation
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