4 Quotes by Suman Pokhrel about language
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Language is texture of images and music. We speak in images and rhythm, by taking help of words
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Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of another language. Those words need to be rinsed, washed, carved and decorated as much as possible.
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Chance of source language influencing the target language and that of the translator intervening onto the style of original writer are major challenges in literary translation.
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On translating text into the new language as it is in source language, there is a chance of it being emerged as an absurd sentence in the target language making no sense at all. In the attempt to make the translation meaningful to the target language, there exists a risk of the original work getting meddled by the translator’s style.
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