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' However, there are only two possibilities for translating `love' in Pidgin, neither of which is satisfactory.
He never wrote or published anything in Yiddish, and he seemed to have used as aids in translating the Guide Alexander Harkavy's Yiddish-English Dictionary and Uriel Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary . Needless to say, translation by dictionary is the crudest and, if one may say, the cruelest form of translation.
The leading finance organizations we visited enhanced their capabilities for providing meaningful information to decisionmakers by developing management information systems that support the partnership between finance and operations, reengineering processes in conjunction with implementing new technology, and translating financial data into meaningful information.
William H. Dougherty's article, “French Leave” [XVII, 3], concerning the difficulty of translating satisfactorily the title of the movie Au Revoir les Enfants , reminds me of a conversation that, as an undergraduate at Princeton, I had in the 1930s with Professor Maurice E. Coindreau, who was engaged in translating Hemingway into French.
Listeners were diverted to hear him explain, in answer to a question about his personal life, that his pastimes included “middle-aged antics,” and they must have wondered what innocent japes--or perhaps amorous frolics--the old boy got up to, until they worked out that middle-aged was his very reasonable attempt at translating du moyen age (medieval), and that antics was his Gallic stress pattern for `antiques'.
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