<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper emphasizes the fallaciousness of the concept of “translation decency” and the extent to which this distorts the source text, revealing primarily the translator’s prudery. Such prudery should play no part in translation; the translator needs to convey the author’s intentions even when s/he does not share their ideas. Although I am not afraid of being judged for judging others, I have chosen to use my own translations as examples, for the act of interlinguistic translation is in itself a choice, certainly as faithful to the original as possible.</p></abstract>

This paper emphasizes the fallaciousness of the concept of “translation decency” and the extent to which this distorts the source text, revealing primarily the translator’s prudery. Such prudery should play no part in translation; the translator needs to convey the author’s intentions even when s/he does not share their ideas. Although I am not afraid of being judged for judging others, I have chosen to use my own translations as examples, for the act of interlinguistic translation is in itself a choice, certainly as faithful to the original as possible.

Between Pudeur and Falsification: Thoughts on Translating Indecent Language

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This paper emphasizes the fallaciousness of the concept of “translation decency” and the extent to which this distorts the source text, revealing primarily the...

Between Pudeur and Falsification: Thoughts on Translating Indecent Language

Publicado en línea: 28 may 2014

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tran-2014-0072

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translation, (in)decency, prudery, alter ego scriptoris, falsifying prudery, prudery as non-communication and stupidity

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Between Pudeur and Falsification: Thoughts on Translating Indecent Language

Publicado en línea: 28 may 2014

Páginas: -

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tran-2014-0072

Palabras clavetranslation, (in)decency, prudery, alter ego scriptoris, falsifying prudery, prudery as non-communication and stupidity

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Palabras clave
translation, (in)decency, prudery, alter ego scriptoris, falsifying prudery, prudery as non-communication and stupidity