Jom:
All translations are paraphrases, at least to a certain extent.
First of all, on a grammatical basis, what is good grammar in one language
often is nonsense in another. Already by adjusting the word order, one does a
low level of paraphrasing.
Secondly, and more importantly, lexemes often have meanings in one language
that have no equivelant in another. Sometimes it will be broader, including
meanings that are rendered by two or three different lexemes in the target
language, sometimes narrower, sometimes a sentence is required to explain a
concept that one word does in the originating text. This is not even counting
figures of speech, literary devices and euphamisms.
Because of these problems, all translations are paraphrases.
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