Q: Is translation the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is translation a type of drawing after life? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Was translation the Wycliffe Bible? ¶
A: Yes, and which showed the weaknesses of an underdeveloped English prose.
Q: Are translations produced of material used in medical clinical trials? ¶
A: Yes, such as informed-consent forms, a back-translation is often required by the ethics committee or institutional review board.
Q: Is translation publicly available through tools on the Internet such as Google Translate? ¶
A: Yes, and Babel Fish, Babylon, and StarDict.
Q: Is translation the best teacher you'll ever have? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are translations prone to error? ¶
A: Yes, therefore, to ensure that a machine-generated translation will be useful to a human being and that publishable-quality translation is achieved, such translations must be reviewed and edited by a human.
Q: Is translation also called a "round-trip translation"? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are translations then used to enable them to understand the meaning of the words they are singing? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is translation applicable to any language with a long literary history? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is translation to be true, the translator must know both languages, as well as the science that he is to translate? ¶
A: Yes, and finding that few translators did, he wanted to do away with translation and translators altogether.
Q: Is translation an assemblage of words? ¶
A: Yes, and as such it can contain as much or as little poetry as any other such assemblage.
Q: Is translation less commonly used today? ¶
A: Yes, and they retain importance when dealing with their products, as when historians view ancient or medieval records to piece together events which took place in non-Western or pre-Western environments.
Q: Is translation generally favored by companies and individuals that wish to secure more accurate translations? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is translation often called an "interpretation" rather than a translation? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is translation characterized by loose adaptation, rather than the closer translation more commonly found in Europe? ¶
A: Yes, and Chinese translation theory identifies various criteria and limitations in translation.
Q: Is translation known as the "Septuagint"? ¶
A: Yes, and a name that refers to the seventy translators who were commissioned to translate the Bible at Alexandria, Egypt.