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Translaticia Translatio – brief script about non-translation

   | 30 may 2014
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(In) Traductibilité des noms propres / (In)Traduttibilità dei nomi propri / La (no) traducibilidad de los nombres propios / Die (Un)Übersetzbarkeit der Eigennamen / The (Un)translatability of proper names

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This article sets out to present a situation which is unconventional, yet frequent in the real act of translation, namely, resorting to clarification, as Saint Jerome chooses to do in the case of certain Hebrew terms impossible to translate in accordance with the Jeromian translational method and not only; the phrase “translaticia translation” is contrived so as to synthesize a situation and implicitly a solution, with specific references and examples from the Jeromian epistolary text, the latter becoming a possible guide for non-translation as a sensible choice.