Top Ten Misconceptions about Translation and Translators

[montrealais]

by Caitilin Walsh. Reprinted from the August 1994 ATA Chronicle

Comments

[hamadryad]

You mean you can't just use a French/English dictionary and somehow retain the same nuance and meaning as actual translation?

:D

[christinaathena]

Let's saying it not true!

[colubra]

Gad indeed.
I've encountered this with the later translations of Haruki Murakami's novels: his first four or five have one translator, and have a much more wry and amused tone. Translations by the woman doing his into-English during middle phase of his career have been pretty flat, and someone has finally figured out the humorous voice again, in the last couple works he's published in English.
It's curious as all get-out.

Also, your icon made me giggle loudly.