XPost: uk.politics.misc, soc.culture.palestine, soc.culture.iranian   
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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <0ur2425bdcnviu2pms350pvitfgtb15f6a@4ax.com>, hummingbird   
    writes   
      
   >On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:46:06 -0400 FACE   
   >   
   >appeared and wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:41:38 +0200, in uk.politics.misc abelard   
   >> scrivened:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>I have looked only lightly at this thread and it is much ado about nothing.   
   >>   
   >>The Persians speak Farsi.  There is not as much word-to-word translation   
   >>between Farsi and English as between English and the other romance   
   >>languages. Certainly less in nuance.   
   >   
   >Rubbish. There is very little in any language which cannot be   
   >translated into English and retain the meaning.   
      
   Absolutely right.   
      
   >>You are correct, Abelard, in that the essence of the meaning of the two   
   >>translations presented here are the same.   
   >   
   >Utter nonsense.   
   >You obviously don't understand the English language.   
      
   Nor what translation is about.   
      
   The reference to word-to-word equivalences as opposed to other kinds was   
   just ridiculous. Whenever you translate from a source language to a   
   target language, there are going to be equivalences other than between   
   syntactical units of the same type. But this is irrelevant. You just   
   wonder why someone comes out with this crap. Accuracy of translation is   
   precisely about meaning, about semantics.   
      
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               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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