Couple o' quick questions
Jonathan Robie
jonathan at texcel.no
Tue Jun 23 11:17:49 EDT 1998
At 10:11 AM 6/23/98 -0700, Eric Weiss wrote:
>Stephen Long wrote:
>
>> Also, is there a rule of translating similar to Occam's Razor,
>>that the simplest explanation is the most likely?
>
>OF COURSE NOT! Otherwise, no one would get any money for writing
commentaries! <grin!>
This is an interesting question. A translation is not a theorum, so
minimizing the number of factors involved in a translation isn't a
meaningful statement to me. And a simple translation of a complex sentence
is not necessarily better if it loses the tone or meaning of the original.
Jonathan
jonathan at texcel.no
Texcel Research
http://www.texcel.no
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