Verbatim translation, as I understand from what I hear from my wife (who
works as a professional translator) is where you don't introduce any
semantic changes whatsoever within the reasonable limitations imposed by
the need of mapping between the different languages you're working with.
When translating between European languages this is relatively easy. When
you bring Chinese, Japanese and other Asian languages into the picture, it
gets more complicated.
I think it all boils down to the 'reasonable limitations'. If you give
wings to your poetic flare, you might get into trouble. If you stick to
the original text, you'll be fine.
This distinction makes more sense when discussing non-technical
translations. In our field, well, there is not a lot of room for poetic
flare.
Cheers!
~Carlos
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir(_at_)checkpoint(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:21 AM, Jorge Contreras <cntreras(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Can you elaborate on why the license makes a difference?
We have been told it would make it easier for people to make and
distribute translations.
--Paul Hoffman
Actually, verbatim translations are already allowed under the existing
IETF document license. It's other modifications that are not allowed under
IETF, but which CC-BY would permit.
Interesting. What does "verbatim translation" mean? Word-for-word? There
is a reason why searching for "google translate funny" yields 63,000
results. How much would I be allowed to paraphrase and yet keep within the
license?
Yoav
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