Re:Karl Ove Knausgaard Concludes “My Struggle”
by wodenokoto on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:46AM
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> I just like the intellectual honesty of a literal translation.
If a literal translation has a completely different meaning or connotation in the target language, then it is not an "honest" translation, since you are implicitly (but knowingly) telling the reader in the target language something that isn't in the source language.
If a literal translation has a completely different meaning or connotation in the target language, then it is not an "honest" translation, since you are implicitly (but knowingly) telling the reader in the target language something that isn't in the source language.