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That's something that I generally avoid telling anyone since it is kind of intimate, but.
It still is a thing that I think most people know but don't say out loud
Translating is making love to a text. The most you can do if you haven't written it. The way to get closer, the way to get involved. It's painful, isn't it, not to be involved with something you love. Translating is putting your own words into text, making it yours, in a way. You can't translate if you don't get the meaning, the essence. It's making a text come alive under your own hands with your own words.
There. Uh.
It still is a thing that I think most people know but don't say out loud
Translating is making love to a text. The most you can do if you haven't written it. The way to get closer, the way to get involved. It's painful, isn't it, not to be involved with something you love. Translating is putting your own words into text, making it yours, in a way. You can't translate if you don't get the meaning, the essence. It's making a text come alive under your own hands with your own words.
There. Uh.