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21 " Few inhabitants of the subcontinent have ever been monoglot; citizens of India have traditionally spoken three, four, or five tongues.1 "
― David Bellos , Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
22 " Translation is not just one thing; how best to do it depends on what you are doing it for. "
23 " This way of dealing with an untranslatable by not translating it while making it pronounceable (sound translation, homophonic translation: see here) could be considered the primary, original meaning of the term literal translation. "
24 " Among them we cannot possibly include the unfortunate but widespread idea that English is simpler than other languages. "
25 " speech is such an ephemeral thing - it's gone in a puff of warm air, which is all it is in a material sense "
26 " Translation is meaning. "
27 " Once again, the expression uttered (in speech or writing) is not the sole or even the primary object of translation when the force of an utterance is what matters, as it always does. "
28 " the semantics of words is an intellectual mess. "
29 " The survivor language, English, is not necessarily the best suited to the job; it’s just that nothing has yet happened to knock it out. "
30 " It can be done only by guessing what the context and genre of the utterance are. "
31 " Most of the time, the symptomatic meaning of an utterance is just too obvious to be noticed. "
32 " any utterance of more than trivial length has no one translation; all utterances have innumerably many acceptable translations. "