news:1g966pq.yhcascfa4wtsN%john_SPAM@wilkins.id.au...
> Uncle Davey <noway@jose.com> wrote:
>
> > news:Xns948ECE477BED3cheezitsnetzeronet@129.250.170.85...
> > > "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote:
> > > [etc.]
> > > > He said "Alexey, you didn't translate what I said". To which the
> > > > translator said. "No, I translated what you OUGHT to have said."
> > > >
> > > > Sometimes good translation is like that.
> > >
> > > That is not good translation. That is lying.
> > >
> > > Sue
> >
> > It's normal translation.
> >
> > Have you not heard the saying 'traduttore - tradittore'?
> >
> > Uncle Davey
>
> Yes, but not "to translate is to invent"... [Insufficient Italian to
> work that one out]
> --
> John Wilkins
> john_SPAM@wilkins.id.au http://wilkins.id.au
> "Men mark it when they hit, but do not mark it when they miss"
> - Francis Bacon
>
You have to be very inventive to be a good translator.
Uncle Davey
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