Re: new southamerican fish

Hi, María and welcome! I'm another southamerican fish, "rioplatense", from
Buenos Aires but living in Brazil. There's another southamerican fish,
Diego, are you still there?
I'm a translator so your post on english-spanish translation has interested
me. I started reading CITR from a Spanish (from Spain) translation, I
couldn't get into the book since the translation was not very good so I left
it and started reading it in English. I prefer to read original versions,
not translations. Translating is a very difficult task, it involves
translating messages, ideas, feelings more than mere words. To produce in
the reader of the translation almost the same that the original text has
produced. More often than not this is not achieved by simply translating
words. Of course, there are good and bad translations, and sometimes this is
related to what publishing houses are willing to pay to a translator. But
that's another story.

Cheers,
ana

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Subject: new southamerican fish

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