Sir: According to one definition a genius is one who can learn a foreign language in a period of three months and is able to translate in a foreign language in six months. Translation is a special skill that professionals work hard to develop. Speaking a foreign language is quite different from translating it.
Something is always lost in translation. Ex-president Pervez Musharraf and his defence lawyers have expressed annoyance about the translation of the word ‘treason’ as ‘ghadaari’ in Urdu. It seems that Musharraf`s defence counsel is mentally ready to carry the case in question with an English word like ‘treason’ but not ‘ghadaari’, an Urdu translation for the same word.
Mukhtar Ali
Kurram Agency
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