In a message dated 7/28/2005 10:21:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, peterkirk AT qaya.org writes:
At the very least it is wrong to say that any unclear or unnatural translation "must not be avoided", which seems to be a suggestion that clarity and naturalness in translation are invalid as criteria and must not be taken into account in translation.
I can't speak for Newmark, but I think that while naturalness is a valid criterion, it is not as much a priority as conveying as much as possible of the sense of the original. The same goes for clarity, ...
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