[tei-council] Things needing translation

[Martin Holmes]

Surely some examples can't actually be translated, or don't make sense 
when they are? For instance, if I'm exemplifying <person> in Chinese, I 
want to use a Chinese person; if I'm using <cit> and <quote> for 
Japanese I don't want to be using Shakespeare in English or Japanese, I 
want to quote Basho or someone like that.

I would think it's rather unusual to find an example which can simply be 
directly translated, and still remain a good example. You might follow 
the model of the original in terms of the markup structure, but you 
would surely change the data, more often than not, wouldn't you?

Cheers,
Martin

On 14-01-02 08:21 PM, Syd Bauman wrote:
> Well, certainly the Chinese may choose to have two examples for
> <said> where the English has only one. But in general only one of
> them would be a *translation* of the English; the other would just be
> an additional example, no?
>
> If that's often wrong, then I guess the idea doesn't work at all. But
> if it's the 90+% case, then we could make it so by editorial fiat.
> (You translators get to create 1 and only 1 *translation* of the
> English, although of cousre internationalizers can add more
> examples.)
>
> Dunno ... food for thought.
>
>
>> Trouble is, there hasn't necessarily a 1:1 relationship between
>> examples for each language, surely? The Chinese may decide to use
>> two examples for our one. Sebastian