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“Translation is the consolation you get for not knowing the source language.”
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“A real translation is transparent.”
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“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
“Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“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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