That's why it is so good to learn foreign languages. It's not just so you can order a beer and chat up girls. It's also a great pleasure to be able to read the literature.
Bob > > ...getting pedantry (I'm taking your word as proof that word actually > exists, and has nothing to do with crime) further away, there > is no way > to properly translate some ideas. The "map" changes as you change the > language, to quote some sci-fi author. Meaning the ideas > often can't be > properly described when you change the language used by the > author. You > end up with a different product. > > Stepping to english from portuguese I lose lots of > information carried > by small details. I may adequately offer you in portuguese some > information in say, four words. I could need three times the > number of > english words to pass just part of the idea, but losing for sure the > unique sense given in portuguese by those four words. Same in > the return > - english offers subtle notions we just can't properly bring to > portuguese, no matter how we try. And those languages use the same > signs... add specific letters or ideograms! > > LF > > frank theriault escreveu: > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On a point of pedantry, 'The Stranger' is not a literal > translation, and > >> conveys nothing of what the novel is about. 'Outsider' is > a much better > >> translation. > > > > I had a professor who spent the better part of two classes > telling us > > why The Outsider is the ~only~ proper translation for the > title of the > > novel. > > > > cheers, > > frank > > > > -- > Luiz Felipe > luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br > http://techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
