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Dear Fritz,<br><br>You are too harsh on yourself.<br>Kant was very fashionable in Russia before his Russian translations were<br>published. If the Russians were able to understand Kant, so much so the<br>Germans. Actually all the great German philosophers were toping<br>the brains of Russian intelligencia in the 19th and 20th centuries, but Kant and Hegel the most, before everything was ruined by Marx and Engels.<br><br>Hayim<br><br><b><i>Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling@sil.org></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <!-- Network content --> <div id="ygrp-text"> <div> <!-- Network content --> </div><div class="Section1">
<div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bill,<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o> </o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">See my answer to David Frank of today. There I tried to show how you are right<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">with your statement that a translation can be superior to the original (when it<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">comes to the criterion of comprehension, clarity). Let me to come to my
example<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">of the translation of Kant, not only into English but into other languages.<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">I believe that translation is *possible<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span></b>* There are hard nuts to crack in translation, but<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">as such translation IS possible.<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Now the
question is for me rather whether it is necessary. I think it would be possible<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">to translate Kant for the Australian aborigines, but is it necessary? And if it were done,<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">maybe I, as a German, might finally understand Kant … ;-)<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o> </o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color:
black;">Fritz<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><o></o></span></b></span></font></div> <div id="ygrp-mlmsg"> <div id="ygrp-msg"> <div id="ygrp-text"> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I don't see why, in principle, a translation cannot be superior to<br> the original text. Not only is it possible that the translator is<br> a better writer than the original author, it is also conceivable that<br> the language into which he or she translates will be better suited<br> to the topic than the language of the original. Although in theory<br> anything that can be expressed in one language can be expressed in<br> another, it is certainly not the case that it is always possible to<br> do so compactly. Some languages have elaborate terminology for certain<br> things that other languages lack, or make fine distinctions as a matter<br> of routine (or indeed, obligatorily)<wbr>, due, e.g., to their morphology,<br> that can only be expressed
in another language by means of elaborate<br> circumlocution.<o></o></span></font></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="white" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: white;"></span></font></div></div> <!--End group email --></div></div><div></div> </div> <!--End group email --> </blockquote><br><p>
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