translation [Theme]

Language is a system of verbal signs through which people can understand each other without prior agreement, while terminology is only understood when the one who writes or speaks and the one who reads or listens have personally agreed on the meaning of the signs. Therefore, I call it a pseudo-language and say that a scientist is forced to start by translating his own thoughts. This is Volapük, Esperanto, adopted as a result of the deliberate agreement of those who develop this discipline. That's why these books are easy to translate from one language to another. In fact, such books in all countries are already almost entirely written in the same language.

Isn't translation a hopelessly utopian pursuit? True, every day I am more and more inclined to the idea that everything that a person does is utopian. He is busy with knowledge, but he does not know anything to the end. In doing justice, he inevitably ends up fraudulent. He thinks he loves, but later notices that he has not gone beyond promises.

They know about the whole world from each other.

- Did you know that "La Brea" means "tar"?
- Yes?
- Yeah, just like "tar", so the name "La Brea tar Pits" translates as "Tar-tarry pit".
- Damn, I hate this crazy town..

Language the shoemaker "big" and complicated - but the translation does not need.

Translation from drunk Russian on a fairly simple - but requires a lot of patience...

We found a person who knows the language of Albania, but he only speaks Romanian. Found Romania, but he only speaks Serbian. The Serb only in Russian. Russian only in Czech and I in turn, understand Czech.
- It will be long...

Genuine knowledge of a foreign language is not the ability to translate it, but in the minds of its untranslatability.

All languages and cultures, variations on the same theme. So they vzaimoponimanii, but never to the end.

Valuable than similarity, and the relationship between translation and original.

Translations are flowers under glass.

- This is an offence against our human rights! [It is a violation of human rights!]
- What does he want?
- Yes, something to drink.
- He can wait.

- How to say in Spanish "Banana Daiquiri"?
- Banana Daiquiri.

Sometimes the translation is more genius than the original.