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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 32, No. 323. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London Hosted by King's Digital Lab www.dhhumanist.org Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org Date: 2019-01-11 15:32:43+00:00 From: Henry SchafferSubject: Re: [Humanist] 32.318: toward a theory of the corpus This discussion is fascinating, but not at all within my general interests - but one small point makes me want to comment: Date: 2019-01-10 15:17:01+00:00 > From: Jim Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 32.311: toward a theory of the corpus > > ... > > Is he working with the Latin text or in English? > > Would the paths work themselves out differently in different languages? > Suppose he were working in Russian or Chinese? > ... > > My interest in how translation can change meaning was sparked by essays by John Ciardi and, thank goodness, has given me less worries in scientific translations than it produces in humanistic materials. (Hmm, what does Commandment VI mean? :-) Another scholar in this area, Everett Fox, deals with the impact of the sounds of material in addition to the meaning. Is machine translation an area of DH? --henry schaffer _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php
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