Information and IdeasHardInference about a translator's choice
Information and Ideas practice question
A translator rendering a comic novel faces a choice with every joke. A literal translation preserves the words but often kills the humour, since puns and idioms rarely survive the crossing. A free translation keeps the laugh by inventing a new joke in the target language, at the price of saying something the author never said. The translator of the recent English edition, whose version is funny on nearly every page, evidently ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. chose freedom over literal fidelity when the two conflicted.Correct
- B. translated every joke word for word.
- C. removed the jokes that did not translate.
- D. found that the author's puns worked unchanged in English.
Answer: A. chose freedom over literal fidelity when the two conflicted.
Funny on every page implies free translation.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. translated every joke word for word.
- Literal translation kills the humour, per the text.
- C. removed the jokes that did not translate.
- Removing jokes would not make every page funny.
- D. found that the author's puns worked unchanged in English.
- The text says puns rarely survive.
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