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Quotes › Authors › C › Christian Wiman › I think of translations as passing some scholarly
  • I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.

    Christian Wiman: I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.
    Christian Wiman
    Source: bigthink.com
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