{"id":10381,"date":"2011-09-06T11:56:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/06\/untranslatable-then-not-worth-translating\/"},"modified":"2011-09-06T11:56:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:56:44","slug":"untranslatable-then-not-worth-translating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/06\/untranslatable-then-not-worth-translating\/","title":{"rendered":"Untranslatable?  Then Not Worth Translating!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">When I hear it said that some text is&#0160;untranslatable, my stock response is that in that case the text is not worth translating.&#0160;&#0160;If it&#0160;cannot be translated out of Sanskrit or Turkish or German, then what universal human interest could it have?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The truth is one, universal, and absolute.&#0160; If you have something to say that makes a claim to being true, then it better be translatable. Otherwise it has no claim on our attention.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I hear it said that some text is&#0160;untranslatable, my stock response is that in that case the text is not worth translating.&#0160;&#0160;If it&#0160;cannot be translated out of Sanskrit or Turkish or German, then what universal human interest could it have? The truth is one, universal, and absolute.&#0160; If you have something to say that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/06\/untranslatable-then-not-worth-translating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Untranslatable?  Then Not Worth Translating!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}