Adam Morris Quotes About Translations

• English can be tricky because there are so many false cognates, but sometimes, as long the idea conveyed is not wrong, these false cognates can themselves offer synonyms or lead to a better alternative word or phrase in translation.

  Adam Morris

  Long, Sometimes, Tricky

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in English translation. I was confident that I could find an editor and the readership for a translation: Noll is highly respected in Brazil, and at the same time divisive, somewhat like Hilda Hilst. Neither of them enjoys the universal acclaim you might associate with Clarice Lispector, whom everyone adores, myself included. Still, I considered it a tremendous injustice that Noll had not been more widely translated and was determined to rectify it.

  Adam Morris

  Taken, Determined, Injustice

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

  Adam Morris

  Thinking, Translators, Translations

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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