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Old 08-07-2009, 11:21 AM   #110
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Even a literal word-for-word translation by a human contains some original input, since words very rarely have a one to one correspondece to words in another language.

Exactly. There really isn't such a thing as a literal word-for-word translation. If such works existed, they probably wouldn't make a whole lot of sense anyway.
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