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Sep 9, 2020Liked by Catherine Addington

Loved this but I'm going to start counting the # of words I have to look up.

1.perspicacity

2. hagiography

3. interlocutor

4. contrapuntal.

I am looking forward to learning more from you...

Shawn

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This was an interesting piece at MereO, where what I was most interested in is where a translator needs to invent a word (or character) completely, to strongly distinguish the Divine from other categories. The first example I think of in English is "consubstantial." https://mereorthodoxy.com/bible-translation/

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Sep 9, 2020Liked by Catherine Addington

(This is just to say that I strongly recommend that everyone read the Y. R. Chao essay, which is a delight, and concerns itself with the difficulties of translating Alice in Wonderland into Chinese.)

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