Language Quote by Vernor Vinge

A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language, especially if…

— Chinmayi

“Similarly, Haynes (1998, viii) notes that many professional translators, and their organizations, remain remarkably uninformed with regards to the progress made in translation technology.…

— Lynne Bowker

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

“This is echoed by King-scott (1996, 295), who warns that unless technology-related issues are integrated into translator-training programmes, there is a real danger that…

— Lynne Bowker

“The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but only faintly…

— Eugene A. Nida

I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.

— Juan Gabriel

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

— Etgar Keret

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

— Alexander Pushkin

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try,…

— Edith Hamilton

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age…

— Gregory Rabassa

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes…

— Alma Guillermoprieto