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To: dighton
Baker and her researchers discovered that two translations of the same text are never the same. Just as researchers have different perspectives and explanations on the same material, translators are no different.
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Standard Derrida-ist and deconstructionist twaddle. This is the crap they sling about at faggy cocktail parties to impress each other.

Real deal, they are COMMIE RATS!!!!


42 posted on 07/06/2002 8:06:38 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw
Baker and her researchers discovered that two translations of the same text are never the same. Just as researchers have different perspectives and explanations on the same material, translators are no different.

Well, this is generally true, no? Perhaps you mean the practice of "altering power discourses" or whatever to politicize translation?

44 posted on 07/06/2002 8:18:14 PM PDT by Shermy
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"two translations of the same text are never the same."

That's why some are considered better than others; sometimes the word 'definitive' is attached to certain translations.
48 posted on 07/06/2002 8:25:36 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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