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Do you know what's the difference between Translation and Interpretation?

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Question added by Rami Abu Al Zain , Senior Administrator / Translator , Mace Macro
Date Posted: 2016/02/08
Thabet Abu Hassan
by Thabet Abu Hassan , Cultural Advisor/Simultaneous Interpreter , Apollo Strategies Inc.

Both of them means conveying or delivering the same meaning in other language (General Definition) but translation is written and interpretation is verbal or oral.

Amir Ageeb
by Amir Ageeb , Content Senior Specialist , Elm Company

Translation mainly occurs between two different languages to break language barriers; interpretation can take place within one langue.

mazin nimri
by mazin nimri , advisor , Vinnell Corporation , JHAS/JORDAN

practically , interpretation is var ball normally , but translation is normally written .

Erna Muric
by Erna Muric , Teacher , Secondary Geodetic School

Translation means an almost depersonalized transliteration of meanings from one language to another - except when translating the poetry,  that is pretty strict operation where you are not allowed to input the meanings that were not there in original text.

On the other side, intepretation is a creative process where you basically make a so called "meta-text" - your personal meta-comment about the text which is object of interpretation.

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