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Old 07-24-2013, 05:14 PM   #57
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Originally Posted by jineapple View Post
And obviously, a translation will always be inferior to the original text.
Why? I don't find this obvious at all. I can imagine that there are more books around than those by Dan Brown that win through a translation.

And on a more subjective note: I also prefer reading English books in English but I would not necessarily say that the mental translation in my head is better than the written one of a professional translator.
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