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“A translator ought to endeavor not only to say what his author has said, but to say it as he has said it.” - John Conington

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Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films. - Bong Joon Ho (movie director).

Felt like this quote could relate strongly to Week 9's topic - Translation and Film.

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Translation is like dancing in fetters.

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Translation is like a bridge, its function is to make people in different language and cultural background can communicate freely.

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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart

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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart

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Nelson Mandela

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There can never be an absolutely final translation.

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it is translation that is able to draw out this pure, or true, language, which would otherwise be concealed.

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it is translation that is able to draw out this pure, or true, language, which would otherwise be concealed.

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“Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.”
– Gunter Grass

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Translating from one language to another is the most delicate of intellectual exercises; compared to translation, all other puzzles, from bridge to crosswords, seem trivial and vulgar. To take a piece of Greek and put it in English without spilling a drop; what a nice skill!               --Cyril Connolly

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Translating from one language to another is the most delicate of intellectual exercises; compared to translation, all other puzzles, from bridge to crosswords, seem trivial and vulgar. To take a piece of Greek and put it in English without spilling a drop; what a nice skill!               --Cyril Connolly

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Translating consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source language message, first in terms of meaning, and secondly in terms of style.

——Eugene A. Nida & Charles R. Taber

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Translators are shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.

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“Firstly, a translator is a person with no rights, only duties. He must show loyalty to the author like a dog, but as a special dog who behaves like a monkey.” If I’m not mistaken, Mauriac wrote: “The novelist is God’s monkey.”  Well, the translator is the novelist’s monkey. He is obliged to pull the same faces, like it or not."

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Translation is one of the few human activities where the impossible occurs by principle.

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"Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture"

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"A good translation will express the central reciprocal relationship between languages."

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Words travel worlds. Translators do the driving.

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A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

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There can never be an absolutely final translation

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Translation is one of the few human activities where the impossible occurs by principle.

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“Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence.”

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Translation just like a dance that you need to do that in a strict rule and competency, but also you need to show its beauty as an art.

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“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.”— Noam Chomsky

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“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.”— Noam Chomsky

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“Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.”

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The ideal reader is a translator. He or she can pull a text to pieces, remove its skin, cut it to the bone, follow each artery and thence fashion a new living being."

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Translating can be compared with a game with complete information, like chess, where every next move takes account of all the previous moves.