A translation should give a complete transcript of the ideas of the original work

A translation should give a complete transcript of the ideas of the original work

(The style and manner of writing should be of the same character as that of the original.)

(A translation should have all the ease of the original composition

Believers that paraphrase or translation with latitude is the true road for the translator

A fair conclusion from these ideas is that the translator’s work may be analysed into the answering of three questions. Faced with a passage in its original language, he must ask himself

This method of analysis may be applied to the paragraph, to the sentence, or even to the phrase

13. Cicero said, in doing so, I did not think it necessary to translate word for word

(Cicero) I did not hold it necessary to render word for word, but preserved the general style and force of the language. Therefore, I did not have to make a word for word translation but rather a translation that reflects the general stylistic features(genus) and the meaning of the foreign words

A good translation is one in which the merit of the original work is so completely translated into another language, as to be as distinctly apprehended, and as strongly felt, by a native of the country to which that language belongs, as it is by those who speak the language of the original work

Translation is the replacement of textual material in one language(SL) by equivalent textual material in another language(TL)

Translation is a craft consisting the attempt to replace a written message and/or statement in one language by the same message and/or statement in another language

Communicative translation attempts to produce on its readers an effect as close as possible to that obtained on the readers of the original. Semantic translation attempts to render, as closely as the semantic and syntactic structure of the second language allows, the exact contextual meaning of the original