Long Quote by Adam Morris

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

— Roy Peter Clark

Is there another word for synonym?

— George Carlin

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

— Baltasar Gracian

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

— Jorge Luis Borges

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

— Burt Bacharach

As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you are unlikely…

— Ann Goldstein

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting…

— Henri Bergson

I have a few minor rules for myself but I break them all the time. For example, when translating from Romance languages to English,…

— Adam Morris

“But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from a language…

— Natasha Pulley

As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.

— Horace

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

— Douglas Hofstadter