Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 23/12/2004 02:16, Karl Randolph wrote:

> Peter:
>
> When I hear "direct translation", most people are thinking of a word for word 
> translation. For reasons discussed before, that is impossible.
>
> But the question is: how much paraphrasing can be done before it crosses the line from 
> merely making the ideas in one language understandable in another, as a subset of 
> translation, to becoming an original work of art pushing its own ideas? All of us have 
> seen examples of such misuse of paraphrase, where it has become the boss rather than 
> the servant of translation, hence why we are so leery of "paraphrase".
>
>  
I am only leery of this continuing abuse of the word "paraphrase". For 
some of my thoughts on the other issues here, see my draft paper 
http://www.qaya.org/academic/bibletranslation/Holy%20Communicative.zip.

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