I can relate to this slide taken from a Ted Talk by Donald Clark, quoting these pearls of wisdom from Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy creator, Douglas Adama :
David Bellos’ superb book,’Is That A Fish In Your Ear’, subtitled ‘the amazing adventure of translation‘, is aimed at the lay reader yet doesn’t dumb down the subject.
As an award-winning translator of George Perec’s daunting ‘Life: A User’s Manual’ and teacher at Princeton University, Bellos obviously knows his onions.
But it is not only his experience of the craft and knowledge of all the pitfalls that make this such an entertaining and illuminating guide.He also has that rare gift of being able to explain potentially complex ideas or dry topics in lively terms and in plain English.
He makes it crystal clear that being a skilled translator or interpreter requires linguistic ingenuity, mental stamina and a love of words. Even if you possess all these qualities there will still be times when you will be unable to find the precise phrase to say what you mean and mean what you say. The challenge of language is that it is a constantly moving target. Continue reading
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