At 04:49 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:Jim, earlier I quoted a dictionary definition of "paraphrase" which is quite different from the one you are working on. On that definition it is certainly not true that "all translations are paraphrases", as stated by Karl, for as George pointed out the paraphrase is implicitly within a single language. But I realise that dictionaries differ. Do you have support for your definition from a respected dictionary?
This is true if you accept Jim's idiosyncratic definition of "paraphrase". I do not.
I wasn't aware that the dictionary carried idiosyncratic definitions. Whether or not you accept a definition is your own business of course- but it is your understanding that is idiosyncratic.
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