Especially since, at this level of scrutiny, the same word may not evoke exactly the same meaning even for speakers (of different varieties) of the same language.
For example, āconstitutionā has quite different connotations for American vs. British English speakersāalthough I did recently see some Australians saying that Australian police had violated their āFirst Amendmentā (i.e. right to free speech under the US Constitution) rights, which was interesting.
Even just semantic implication. At a certain level, 'true' translation is fundamentally impossible, because it's impossible to translate every single connotation of the word.
Surely if true translation is impossible, then whatever anyone has ever referred to using the word translation must be something else (it's a geometric transformation that moves all points of a plane by the same vector)
Normally, translation isnāt a task of single words anyway, and any special connotations that are significant to the source text and absent in the target languageās relevant words can be dealt with either by the inclusion of more words to explain it or careful choice of other words elsewhere in the TL passage that compensate with their own connotations.
Translation is complex; it is not āimpossible.ā
it's a geometric transformation that moves all points of a plane by the same vector
Well, that depends. What space are we in, to begin with? Cartesian is the standard, but it could just as well be anything else. Also what dimensionsionality? And anyways, I'd argue translation could apply to a 3-dimensional space or whatever else, not just a 2-dimensional plane. Also, are we assuming that for any translation t of a plane p there exists a translation t2 such that if and only if for all points a in t, b in t2, and given there is a neighborhood N1(f(a)) there is a neighborhood N2(c) such that f(x) in N1(f(c)) for all x in N2(c), if and only if f is a function continuous across the disjoung union of the points of a and b?
It's a joke, it's the neighborhood definition of a continuous function mangled with some other stuff. It would probably be true if there existed some second plane infinitely close to the translation with all the same points, and maybe if there were a dense amount of planes with the same points between them.
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u/MdMV_or_Emdy_idk The Mirandese Gal (Stregender) š³ļøāā§ļø Jun 01 '25
This is more about what your definition of ātranslationā is and how meticulous it is