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  2. Translation - Wikipedia

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    In translation, a source text (ST) is a text written in a given source language which is to be, or has been, translated into another language, while a target text (TT) is a translated text written in the intended target language, which is the result of a translation from a given source text.

  3. Specialized translation - Wikipedia

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    Specialized translation is a term and concept used in the translation business and in translation schools. A text to be translated is specialized if translating it calls for knowledge in some field that would not normally be part of a translator's or translation student's general knowledge.

  4. List of translators - Wikipedia

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    Samuil Marshak – translator of Shakespeare's sonnets, among his other works; Aleksey Mikhalyov – translator of John Steinbeck's East of Eden and many other authors, as well as numerous films and cartoons; Midori Miura – translator of Non-chan kumo ni noru by Momoko Ishii; Vladimir Nabokov – translator of Alice in Wonderland and Lolita

  5. Source text - Wikipedia

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    A source text [1] [2] is a text (sometimes oral) from which information or ideas are derived. In translation , a source text is the original text that is to be translated into another language . Description

  6. Machine translation - Wikipedia

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    Claude Piron, a long-time translator for the United Nations and the World Health Organization, wrote that machine translation, at its best, automates the easier part of a translator's job; the harder and more time-consuming part usually involves doing extensive research to resolve ambiguities in the source text, which the grammatical and ...

  7. Untranslatability - Wikipedia

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    A text that is considered to be untranslatable is considered a lacuna, or lexical gap. The term arises when describing the difficulty of achieving the so-called perfect translation. It is based on the notion that there are certain concepts and words that are so interrelated that an accurate translation becomes an impossible task. [1]

  8. Certified translation - Wikipedia

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    In Mexico, certified translation is known as a translation that is sealed and signed by a government-authorized expert translator (Perito traductor autorizado), these expert translators are commonly authorized by each state's Court of Justice, [9] or by the Federal Judicial Council, [10] but local government offices can also give out such ...

  9. Skopos theory - Wikipedia

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    The theory first appeared in an article published by linguist Hans Josef Vermeer in the German Journal Lebende Sprachen, 1978. [2]As a realisation of James Holmes’ map of Translation Studies (1972), [3] [4] skopos theory is the core of the four approaches of German functionalist translation theory [5] that emerged around the late twentieth century.