#deliberately confusing

[adzolotl]

There are three ways to “translate” a text: you can convert each phoneme to a new script, convert each word sequentially to a new language, or attempt to preserve the meaning and style by converting the text wholesale.

In short, there’s transliteration, literal translation, and literary translation.

[outofthedarkness]

I bought a used anthology of Kierkegaard and, scribbled in the margin of one page of the Concluding Unscientific Postscript, I found this note from the previous owner:

I have not the slightest idea what is being said here