Quotes by Gregory Rabassa - Page 1

Every act of communication is an act of translation.
Gregory Rabassa / Translator
Communication
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Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.
Gregory Rabassa / Translator
Jobs
Fun
Teaching
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A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print
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Reading
Unchanging
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A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.
Gregory Rabassa / Translator
Quality
Equal
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I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle.
Gregory Rabassa / Translator
Giving
Language
Reading
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Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of fervent belief and ideology, this age or greed and screed.
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Age
Crafts
Greed
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When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the Russians share the open vowels and the dark "L," the "owL" sound.
Gregory Rabassa / Translator
Dark
Listening
Owl
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One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.
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