[B-Greek] my wooden interlinear translations

Dan Gleason dan-bgreek at hotmail.com
Mon Nov 7 04:06:41 EST 2005


GH
The ideal approach is to strike a helpful balance between
>dynamic equivalency and literality where the two techniques complement each
>other in unlocking the meaning of the text.

DG: Gary, I agree. What you said above is a true statement. That is why I 
used immersing instead of baptizing in my Mk 1:4 translation. I will keep 
the concept of "balance" in front of me at all times in the future.

sincerely,
Dan Gleason





>From: "Gary Hedrick" <garyh at cjfm.org>
>To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] my wooden interlinear translations
>Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:02:57 +0200
>
>Your point is well taken, Don.  Equivalency is unavoidable in translation,
>whether it's Greek or any other language.  A thousand years from now,
>someone might find a note in English that reads, "I hit the sack every
>evening no later than 11 o'clock."  Obviously, it would be a disaster to
>translate that comment into another language literally because he's not
>really pounding on a bag, but rather going to sleep.
>
>The problem, on the other hand, is that equivalency in translation can be
>subjective in a way that allows the translator, at times, to inject his own
>preconceptions (or even misconceptions) into the text ("Humm ... this is
>what I think the writer had in mind when he said this").  What you end up
>with is more of a running commentary on the text rather than a true
>translation of the text itself.  Like most other things in life, the key
>here is balance.  The ideal approach is to strike a helpful balance between
>dynamic equivalency and literality where the two techniques complement each
>other in unlocking the meaning of the text.
>
>Gary Hedrick
>Mevasseret, Israel
>garycjf at 012.net.il
>
>Dear List,
>
>My Occam's razor contribution to the discussion is this 25-word quote
>(source unknown) which has lived above my desk for years:
>
>"To translate is not to put the words of one language into another:
>it is to express the meaning of the words in another language".
>
>
>Don Doherty
>Alexandra Headland
>Australia
>
>
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