/lit/ - Literature

FUCK THIS FUCKING SHIT ADS THAT YOU MISSCLICK ON BECAUSE THE PAGE RANDOMLY UPDATES AND MOVES AROUND SO THAT YOU LOSE WHAT YOU WROTE.
Anyway. The meaning of the text and image you conceive in your mind as you read a text is what should be reconveyed in a translation. The prose poetry of the original is inherently connected with the sound of the language and is therefore always lost, just like my original and far better post is. The words have no relevance, a translator shouldn't care about the text beyond the image/meaning chronology as they occur when reading. This is even how the original author wrote the book, it's hoe you can rewrite the same line yet retain meaning.
A translator is meant to capture this pre-linguistic intuition.
This is also how a translation can even be, in theory, superior to the original if the prose never was good in the first place.

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Is this the latest version? Anyone got any recommendations on how it could be improved?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/edit?usp=drivesdk

“let us run it down with three–beauty, proportion, and truth, and let us say that these, considered as one, may more properly than all other components of the mixture be regarded as the cause, and that through the goodness of these the mixture itself has been made good.”

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Alcibiades I, Ion, Phaedrus, Lysis, Republic, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Cratylus, Parmenides, Theaetetus-Sophist-Statesman, Philebus, Timaeus-Critias, now Parmenides again.