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oryx_and_crake ([personal profile] oryx_and_crake) wrote2005-09-30 02:41 pm
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О тяжкой доле переводчика

(оригинал здесь, нашла в руслантре)

If you translate into a foreign language, your style will be non-native.
If you translate into your own language, you'll miss the point of the original.
If you live abroad, your native language will get a bit rusty, and you'll never write the foreign language like a real native does.
If you are a translator, you'll fail to grasp the fine technical points of the original or to convey them to the reader using the appropriate language.
If you are a non-translator you should be doing your thing, not translating, because you do not know how to translate.
If you do not have a degree, you lack the necessary theoretical foundation.
If you have a degree, you lack the necessary practice.

You can't win.

[identity profile] smalgin.livejournal.com 2005-10-01 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Ага. Я тут на старости лет записался в колледж на изучение японского. Через два с половиной года буду торжествующим дилетантом сразу на двух иностранных языках :) :) :)

[identity profile] smalgin.livejournal.com 2005-10-01 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Iie, ja arimasen. Watashi wa Nihongo no suki desu :)

[identity profile] smalgin.livejournal.com 2005-10-01 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
No, it's not right. I like Japanese