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Özden Arıkan Germany Local time: 21:36 Member English to Turkish + ...
Thanks for sharing, Ceci
Sep 30, 2005
Unfortunately, the article is very concise, but triggers my curiosity to search more on Rajagopal Parthasarathy. I especially like the part about 'having the translation done by the tongue first, rather than the pen'. So true for the process of literary translation, where success might be related to whether you hear the 'voice' of the text in the target language.
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Parrot Spain Local time: 21:36 Spanish to English + ...
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'Oral' translation as a technique
Sep 30, 2005
is a very good method, even - and especially for - those long-winded legal contracts that sound so bad in the original. I always check to see if my final target text admits breathing (i.e., once I've checked for coherence).
A really contagious case I read about was "The Song of Hiawatha". It seems that Longfellow, at the time he wrote it, had fallen under the spell of John Martin Crawford's translation of Finnish fo... See more
is a very good method, even - and especially for - those long-winded legal contracts that sound so bad in the original. I always check to see if my final target text admits breathing (i.e., once I've checked for coherence).
A really contagious case I read about was "The Song of Hiawatha". It seems that Longfellow, at the time he wrote it, had fallen under the spell of John Martin Crawford's translation of Finnish folklorist Elias Lönnrot's Kalevala collection. They sounded so alike.
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