[Lexicog] When Semantics Doesn't Matter

[Bill Poser]

I don't see why, in principle, a translation cannot be superior to
the original text. Not only is it possible that the translator is
a better writer than the original author, it is also conceivable that
the language into which he or she translates will be better suited
to the topic than the language of the original. Although in theory
anything that can be expressed in one language can be expressed in
another, it is certainly not the case that it is always possible to
do so compactly. Some languages have elaborate terminology for certain
things that other languages lack, or make fine distinctions as a matter
of routine (or indeed, obligatorily), due, e.g., to their morphology,
that can only be expressed in another language by means of elaborate
circumlocution.

 


 
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