Assertion: translator's language | /r/HasProperty | english
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text: Speculative language-to-language scores extrapolated from English-to-other measurements indicate that Google Translate will produce translation results that convey the gist of a text from one language to another more than half the time in about 1% of language pairs, where neither language is English.
text: Although interpreters and translators typically need at least a bachelor’s degree, the most important requirements are that they be fluent in two languages (English and at least one other language).
text: However, theory aside, your examples from Chinese prompted me to think about this issue specifically in terms of my own source and target languages (English and Afrikaans).
text: However, theory aside, your examples from Chinese prompted me to think about this issue specifically in terms of my own source and target languages (English and Afrikaans).In my target language, a literal translation can be said to be one in which the translator assumed that most words, word chunks and phrases in English have an ideal or "best" one-to-one equivalent in Afrikaans, and in which the translator assumed that the source text author's choice of words is ideal (i.e. the words in the source text most accurately convey the meaning intended by the source text author), and that the target text should therefore use the usual translations of those words.