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Behind the Tapestry: Editing Translated Text

posted on December 5, 2018 by Sarah Grey

Tower of Babel painting by Pieter Brueghel the elder

Miguel de Cervantes compared translated text to the back side of a tapestry: although the figures are seen, he said, they are full of threads that obscure them. Mind you, he said that—or, rather, he had Don Quixote say it—in 16th-century Spanish. ¡Qué de habilidades hay perdidas por ahí! ¡Qué de … [Read more...]

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