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    • Etymology: From the Latin "translatio," meaning "to carry across"
    • Translation is evident from as early as the second millennium BCE
    • Epic of Gilgamesh among oldest known translated literary works

  • This page contains some of the best resources on the internet to get a Free Translation between a variety of languages.

    The act of translation involves taking a text written in one language and producing the equivalent text in another language. Translation is an imperfect art as there is no word-to-word correspondence between two languages. A mechanical word-to-word translation cannot take into account grammatical rules, idioms, context or the conventions of writing systems. While you can receive a basic translation of a text by using an online translation service, keep in mind that the result won't necessarily provide every nuance of the original text's meaning.

  • Etymology

    The world "translation" is derived from the Latin "translatio" meaning "to carry across." The Greek word for "translation," "metaphrasis," has provided English with the terms "metaphrase," meaning word-for-word, and "paraphrase," meaning "a saying in other words." The distinction, taken from the Greek, allows translators to differentiate between metaphrase, the formal equivalent of a text, and paraphrase, the dynamic equivalent of a text.

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