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⇑Translation and Interpreting at Heriot-Watt University

Language: English Studies in English

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (not all languages do) between translating (a written text) and interpreting (oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages); under this distinction, translation can begin only after the appearance of writing within a language community.

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Translation

A good poet is no more like himself in a dull translation than his carcass would be to his living body.

John Dryden, Preface to Sylvae, or the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies (1685).

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Translation

Translation is at best an echo.

George Borrow, Lavengro (1851), Ch. 25, p. 151.

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Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few but such as cannot write, translate.

John Denham, To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido (1648), line 1.

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