{"id":17,"date":"2012-09-25T06:34:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/?p=17"},"modified":"2012-09-25T06:34:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:34:54","slug":"avoiding-ambiguity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Ambiguity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some valuable things to keep in mind when composing your translations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why didn\u2019t the writers catch these mistakes? Probably because they were looking at their intentions \u2014 what they meant to say \u2014 not the words they put on the page&#8230; They\u2019re nearly always over-reading, alive to the writer\u2019s intention, as if the writer were somehow immanent in the sentence, looking over the reader\u2019s shoulder, expecting the benefit of the doubt. (<a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/24\/the-trouble-with-intentions\/\">read more<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Verlyn Klinkenborg, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/24\/the-trouble-with-intentions\/\">The Trouble With Intentions<\/a>,&#8221; <em>New York Times<\/em>, 24 September 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some valuable things to keep in mind when composing your translations: Why didn\u2019t the writers catch these mistakes? Probably because they were looking at their intentions \u2014 what they meant to say \u2014 not the words they put on the page&#8230; They\u2019re nearly always over-reading, alive to the writer\u2019s intention, as if the writer were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translating","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}