Source: the Guardian
The difficulty of translating fiction isn’t finding the correct equivalent for each word. That would be like a pianist reading music and fumbling about for the right note on the keyboard each time: no music would ever be made. It is, as people often say, about finding the voice.
As a translator you just have to get used to reading with your ears.
Source: theguardian.com
Howard Curtis, winner of the Marsh award for children’s literature in translation, explains that translation is about more than putting words from one language into another
What do translators do? Of course, they take words written in one language and put them into other words in another language, trying to give the same meaning. But it isn’t always as simple as that. Languages work in different ways, we don’t say things the same way in different languages.
We all have our grammatical bugbears. If you’re anything like me, they’ll irritate you, but you’ll let them go. No one wants to be the smart-arse constantly reminding people that it should be “fewer” and not “less”. But for software engineer Bryan Henderson, that kind of defeatism just doesn’t cut it. Every Sunday night, before he goes to bed, he tracks down and expunges the 70-80 new instances of “comprised of” that have appeared on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, according to Medium. He is a super-pedant.
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