Quotes on Translation by https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8 en-us 2020-07-27 04:52:23 UTC 2025-11-03 23:29:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Levey annagadd https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663047282 Translating can be compared with a game with complete information, like chess, where every next move takes account of all the previous moves.]]> 2020-07-27 04:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663047282 Alberto Manguel https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663108791 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."]]> 2020-07-27 06:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663108791 Italo Calvino https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663108897 “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.”]]> 2020-07-27 06:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663108897 “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 https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663109833 2020-07-27 06:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663109833 George Steiner https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663110076 “Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence.”

]]> 2020-07-27 06:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663110076 Aki https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663110146 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.]]> 2020-07-27 06:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663110146 https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663110424 2020-07-27 06:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663110424 John Millington Synge https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663110617 A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.]]> 2020-07-27 06:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663110617 Anna Rusconi https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663110891 Words travel worlds. Translators do the driving. ]]> 2020-07-27 06:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663110891 Robert M. Grant https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663110944 There can never be an absolutely final translation ]]> 2020-07-27 06:47:00 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663110944 Walter Benjamin https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663113005 "A good translation will express the central reciprocal relationship between languages."]]> 2020-07-27 06:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663113005 Anthony Burgess https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663113620 "Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture"]]> 2020-07-27 06:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663113620 Mariano Rato https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663114885 Translation is one of the few human activities where the impossible occurs by principle.]]> 2020-07-27 06:53:51 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663114885 Maurice E. Coindreau https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663115152 “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."]]> 2020-07-27 06:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663115152 https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663117940 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

]]> 2020-07-27 06:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663117940 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 https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663118063 2020-07-27 06:59:13 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663118063 https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663123526 “Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.”
– Gunter Grass

]]> 2020-07-27 07:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663123526 it is translation that is able to draw out this pure, or true, language, which would otherwise be concealed. https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663125206 2020-07-27 07:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663125206 Robert M Grant https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663129126 There can never be an absolutely final translation.]]> 2020-07-27 07:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663129126 Paul Auster https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663133515 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.]]> 2020-07-27 07:29:45 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663133515 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 huiwang1114 https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663133684
Nelson Mandela ]]> 2020-07-27 07:30:03 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663133684 Tommy Chen 723162610 https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663180360 Translation is like a bridge, its function is to make people in different language and cultural background can communicate freely.

]]> 2020-07-27 09:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663180360 https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663905104 Translation is like dancing in fetters.]]> 2020-07-28 05:24:26 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/663905104 Michelle Yoon https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/665787368 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. ]]> 2020-07-30 12:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/665787368 Michelle Yoon https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/665789812 “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]]> 2020-07-30 12:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/annagadd/8ucfon8kxt6li6r8/wish/665789812