Complexity of a Language and its Translation.

Babban Miyan Ding Dong · #1 Thursday, December 08, 2005

Assalam Alaikum,

Following is the excerpt from the Article of Mark Wigley, an architectural theorist, on the complexity of Translation and interpretations.

I thought u guys may find it interesting...

This translation contract is not independent of the languages whose economy it organises. It is inscribed within both languages. Not only is the original already corrupt, already divided, but translation is occuring across those divisions. The gap between languages passes through each language. Because language is always divided, inhabited by the other, and constantly negotiating with it, translation is possible. The translation within a language makes possible translation outside it. One language, therefore is not simply outside the other. Translation occurs across a gap folded within, rather than between, each language. It is precisely these folds that constitute language. The contract is no more than the geometry of these folds, the organisation of the gaps.

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