“Mouse Or Rat? – Translation As Negotiation” by Umberto Eco is a collection of essays on the problems a translator encounters when translating literature. Translation is not just about reproducing a message in a different language, there are also cultural differences involved. As a result, translators are always “negotiating”.
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Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture
-Anthony Burgess
To know another’s language and not his culture is a very good way to make a fluent fool of yourself
-Winston Brembeck
In this weblog, Percy Balemans writes about translation and language, more specifically, the Dutch and English language.
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