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The view is blurred and grainy. Shadowy time before dawn. The road is empty up to the horizon. The bus has arrived. It’s a long way to Pingyao.
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Almost all rules of good design can be applied to text translation, and this is even more important in reference to apps, programs, and websites as their interfaces all need to be properly designed (and localized) to be efficiently and willingly used by users.
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It is a common opinion that translations made by native speakers of a given language read more naturally, or, simply, are better than texts translated by non-mother tongue users. Empirical evidence suggests quite the contrary.
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I find literary translation very rewarding. Yet translating classic writings of the past centuries is like dodging amongst the archaic words and old grammars of a meandring language with deadly inversions and fatal inflections: the outcome is a matter of linguistic life or death.
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