Quotes About Translation

Three Tasks of a Good Missionary Learn the language: educate yourself on how to talk in a way that people can understand and to which they can relate and eventually respond Study the culture: become so sensitized to that culture that you can operate effectively within it Translate the gospel: translate it into its own cultural context so that it can be heard, understood, and appropriated

ViolenÈ›a era singura limb? pe care n-o putea înÈ›elege nimeni. Nu existau traduc?tori. Åži el îmi vorbise mie mai îndelung ÅŸi mai dureros decât oricine.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

He never said what he meant. He never said what he meant.… All through their encounters, their clashes, their crossing of swords she had known that and learned a little to deal with it, and to translate, if only to herself, what lay under the stream of hurtful, facile words. And, suddenly, this time she felt panic, a seizure of fear so unexpected that she stared at him, quite unseeing, listening to the tone of the words. And then she saw what was behind it, and sat down.

The professional interpreter is a minor miracle—far better

The protruding upper halves of the letters now appear, in the local language, to read "Go stick your head in a pig," and are no longer illuminated, except at times of special celebration.

It's translating for you. It's a Babel fish. Look it up in the book if you like.

What's this fish doing in my ear?" "It's translating for you. It's a Babel fish. Look it up in the book if you like.

I know you are reading this poem which is not in your language guessing at some words while others keep you reading and I want to know which words they are.

The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning.

Men are so superior about their Latin," said Mrs. Blair. "But all the same I notice that when you ask them to translate inscriptions in old churches, they can never do it! They hem and haw, and get out of it somehow.

Mr Ratchett wanted to see the world. He was hampered by knowing no languages. I acted more as a courier than a secretary".

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Though we have translated deva as "god" and "deity," there is a vast difference between Indian gods and the modern Judeo-Christian idea of a deity. The Buddhist being that is closest to the Judeo-Christian notion of God is the Buddha. We cannot, though, in the narrowest sense of the word, call the Buddha a god.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Quootla had a suffix, - utl , that could be glued to the end of anything—nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, small rodents—and meant the word itself plus its opposite, simultaneously. It didn't always translate into Goreddi. Time/no-time almost made sense; blue/orange or fall/rise or dog/whatever-the-opposite-of-dog-is were perfectly intelligible in Quootla but boggling to nearly everyone else.

One of the things I believe is that as long as Raja and I are translating, her people and mine may have something to do besides going to war for embarrassing reasons.

We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'

Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level, superheroes, whether in print or on film, serve the same function for their audience as Golden Age movie stars did for theirs: they create glamour.