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The translator element: the intimate connection with language
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May 15, 2010

They always say, "mind your language"; but I believe that translators "mind the language of others as well as their own", if that makes any sense. It's like that time I was translating "Ernährungsadapter" from German into English. In German, "ernähren" meeds to feed; meaning that a literal translation of this would be "feeding adapter", and I suppose that this could be a workable translation (if only with a bit of independent reasoning), but I had the wisdom to translate it as "mains adapter".... See more
They always say, "mind your language"; but I believe that translators "mind the language of others as well as their own", if that makes any sense. It's like that time I was translating "Ernährungsadapter" from German into English. In German, "ernähren" meeds to feed; meaning that a literal translation of this would be "feeding adapter", and I suppose that this could be a workable translation (if only with a bit of independent reasoning), but I had the wisdom to translate it as "mains adapter". What a wonderful blessing for us all. ▲ Collapse
 


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The translator element: the intimate connection with language






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