Editing Quote by Gregory Rabassa

“Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.” quote by Gregory Rabassa — Download Open image

“Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.”

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I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but…

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“So the poor translator must not just go back and forth between two languages, but if he is worthy of his calling must shift…

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“The translator, we should know, is a writer too. As a matter of fact, he could be called the ideal writer because all he…

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When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the…

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Every act of communication is an act of translation.

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One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she…

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