My Sweet Alpha
“Speaking grosso modo, we must accept that distinction, but when we do so we
close the door on the real problem every translation presents. For if we ask ourselves
the reason certain scientific books are easier to translate, we will soon realize that
in these the author himself has begun by translating from the authentic tongue in
which he ‘lives, moves and has his being’ into a pseudolanguage formed by technical
terms, linguistically artificial words which he himself must define in his book. In
short, he translates himself from a language into a terminology.”
“But a terminology is a language like any other! Furthermore, according to
our Condillac, the best language, the language that is ‘we
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