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closely without realizing that the grammar and syntax of both English
and Arabic are not identical. "Much smaller than" is literally
translated as "asghara bikathi rin min". "Santi mitrin" is an
acceptable Arabization of the English "centimetre". The concept of
'undecidedness' about the exact length of the tumour's diameter, and
which is designated by the word 'about', is not reflected in the Arabic
SEMI
translation. The word "tu'li" in the noun phrase "tu li outrihi" (the
length of its diameter) is a non-functional redundancy. Had it been
translated as "waramin yaqillu qutruhu bikathi'rin ann santi mitrin
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...
wa hidin tagri . ban", A rgicriJ
the translation would have been not only precise, compact and
idiomatic, but also natural, smooth, efficient and less crooked.
Translated back into English, may re-translation of the above phrase
reads: "... a tumour far less in diameter than about one centimetre".
The notion of 'undecidedness' about the exact length of the tumour's
diameter explicated by the use of 'about' in the SL text is maintained
in the TL version by the insertion of "tagri ban", the closest Arabic
lexical equivalent to the English "about". Towards the conclusion of
this paragraph, the mistranslation of a single word led to an obvious
disruption of the natural flow of Arabic. The words "improve" and
"improving" used as verb and verbal adjective respectively are
literally translated into "yatahassan" and "tahassun"
two derivatives stemming from the same root 'hsn'. Should we change
the root to "twr", we will have two derivatives "vatatawwar" and
"tatawwur", which have a much wider semantic range and sound more
p.
Arabic than "vatahassan" and "tahassun". Moreover, the insertion of
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