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“All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something”
― G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen

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message 1: by Rebecca (new)

Nov 12, 2012 06:38PM

Love this! Am editing a translation of my own short story - deciding what to drop and what to retain. Indeed - but I guess I have to live with it :)

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