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“Translation is the consolation you get for not knowing the source language.”
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“أظن أن المترجم الجيد ينبغى أن يكون مريضاً نفسياً. هذا الشخص الذى يمنح كامل طاقته وموهبته لحساب شخص آخر. فى رأيى، الترجمة هى أعذب أنواع الجنون، وسنخسر كثيراً - ككتاب - لو تحقق الشفاء للمترجمين.”
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“A real translation is transparent.”
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“Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“Translation means that a translator has picked one word above all the others: one winner, with all the finalists gone from the page forever. Translation always calls upon the translator to make a judgement call, and what the reader hears, then, is a judgement”
― The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
― The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
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