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Subject:Re: How to deal with incorrect editing From:"Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 30 Dec 2003 09:44:15 -0800
"Goober Writer" <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote in message news:223722 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> > Poor grammar is costlier to
> > translate and can lead to unintelligible results in
> > other languages.
>
> Not exactly. Translation gets into issues that go
> beyond grammar alone. You can write a grammatically
> perfect sentence and still have a mess on the
> translation side if you include idioms,
> colloquialisms, metaphors, and other such
> grammatically-safe conventions.
Yes, you're right. So which is more expensive to translate, a grammatically
correct sentence with such colloquialisms, metaphors, etc., or a grammatic
mess of a sentence that is free of such weightiness?
>
> > Perhaps obsession with grammar at an extreme level
> > can be as dismaying as
> > font fondling, but attention to grammar ensures that
> > concepts are
> > communicated clearly, concisely, and completely.
>
> But not the 4th "C"... "Correctly".
>
Yup, yup, yup. Brain fart to omit that one.
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